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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 “Field Crop Farmworker”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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