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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”

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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment 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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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