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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”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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