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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 “Fruit Farmworker”

Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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