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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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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