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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”

Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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