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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”

Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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 or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.

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