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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 Worker”

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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery 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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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