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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”.

Also Known As…

Tasks for “Farm Hand”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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