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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”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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