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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”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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