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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”

Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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