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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”

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.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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