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Job Description

Drive and control farm equipment to till soil and to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops. May perform tasks, such as crop baling or hay bucking. May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks, such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 45-2091.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 30,430.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 28,700 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Agricultural Equipment Operators”.

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Tasks for “Diversified Crops Farmworker”

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

Harrow baskets
Rotary tillers
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
Skid steer tree cutters
Farm tractors
Tractor guidance systems
2-point sprayers
Hay bale movers
Telehandlers
Fertilizer blenders
Bed shapers
Offset disks
Bucket elevators
Coulter disks
Utility vehicles
Feed conveyors
Hay balers
Roller packers
Forage boxes
Coulter rippers
Hay bale loaders
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
Min-till cultivators
Hay bale conveyors
Disk rippers
Grain pumps
Litter spreaders
Fertilizer spreaders
Skid steer hay bale spears
Grain heaters
Backhoes
Grass drills
Manure spreaders
Silage feeders
Skid sprayers
Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
Air drill seeders
Rotary hoes
Straw and chaff spreaders
Seed vacuums
Forage blowers
Manure separators
Land scrapers
Feed mixer wagons
Land levelers
Forage tractors
Silage baggers
Lime spreaders
Skid steer post hole diggers
Auger wagons
Track tractors
Mist blowers
Liquid storage tanks
Hay bale elevators
Hay bale accumulators
Peanut digger shakers
Min-till drills
Rotary hay rakes
Plows
Grass seeders
Silage bins
Post hole diggers
Chaff spreaders
Header carriers
Haybines
Forklifts
Crop dividers
Post drivers
Combine headers
Row crop cultivators
Gravity wagons
Combine header transports
Windrowers
Land rollers
Grain drills
Seed strippers
Seed bins
Air seeders
V hay rakes
Skid steer loaders
Peanut dryers
Silage mills
Subcompact tractors
Air carts
Hay bale forks
Combine cylinders
Peanut dump carts
Swath turners
Peanut diggers
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
Chisel plows
Min-till planters
Crop shredders
Compost turners
Transfer augers
Grain wagons
Manure scrapers
Crop lifters
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Sprayer chassis
Skid steer post drivers
Seed drills
Field cultivators
Hay tedders
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Hay bale compressors
Windrow inverters
Wheel loaders
All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
Garlic harvesters
Seed mixers
Silo spreaders
Forage wagons
Weed wipes
Mower conditioners
Ditchers
Manure storage tanks
Subsoilers
Batch grain dryers
Silage boxes
Self-propelled sprayers
Horizontal feed mixers
Hammermills
Manure injection systems
Manure chopper pumps
Pasture renovators
Threshers
Hay bale wrappers
Seed hoppers
Auger movers
Manure augers
Skid steer rock grapples
Combine grain headers
Seed conveyors
Dry bulk storage tanks
Hay bale shredders
Silage wrappers
Silage wagons
Shavings spreaders
Forage harvesters
Compact tractors
Land planes
Seed scales
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Granular applicators
Skid steer post pullers
Feed grinders
Stump grinders
Tomato harvesters
Nurse tanks
Seed tenders
Silage distributors
Field rollers
Grain vacuums
Peanut harvesters
Hay bale stackers
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Hay bale unrollers
Cargo trucks
Grain bin aeration fans
Seed dryers
Bedding hippers
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Tower grain dryers
Land finishers
Power winches
Combine draper headers
Air reels
3-point sprayers
Tandem disks
Soybean combine harvesters
All terrain vehicles ATV
Grain combines
Sprayer booms
Peanut digger inverters
Hay bale feeders
Coulter drills
Skid steer rotary tillers
Rock windrowers
Continuous flow grain dryers
Flotation sprayers
Flat-ended shovels
Hay bale trailers
Hay conditioners
Portable sprayers
Grain augers
Chisel disks
Hay bale spears

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