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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”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery 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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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