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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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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