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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 Laborer”

Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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