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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”

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.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery 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.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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