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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 “Farm Hand”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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