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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”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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