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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”

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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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