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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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