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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”

Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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