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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 “Farmer”

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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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