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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”

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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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