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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”

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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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