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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 Manager”

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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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