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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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