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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 Harvest Machine Operator”

Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.

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V hay rakes
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Forage boxes
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Weed wipes
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Tractor guidance systems
Land finishers
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Grain vacuums
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Disk rippers
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
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Hay tedders
Header carriers
Combine grain headers
Hay bale accumulators
Seed scales
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Ditchers
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Wheel loaders
Silage distributors
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Peanut digger inverters
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Land planes
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Post drivers
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Rock windrowers
Seed conveyors
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Sprayer chassis
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Hay bale elevators
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Seed bins
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Air reels
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Silage mills
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Plows
Seed mixers
Hay balers
Offset disks
Grain heaters
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Telehandlers
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Liquid ferilizer applicators
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
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Silo spreaders
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Sprayer booms
Min-till drills
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Seed drills
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Auger movers
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Grass seeders
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Skid steer rock grapples
Min-till planters
Cargo trucks
Coulter disks
Seed dryers
Mower conditioners
Bed shapers
Hay bale shredders
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Liquid storage tanks
Peanut diggers
Litter spreaders
Hay bale unrollers
Combine draper headers
Nurse tanks
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Seed hoppers
Rotary tillers
Granular applicators
Backhoes
Dry bulk storage tanks
2-point sprayers
Peanut harvesters
Chaff spreaders
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Land rollers
Seed vacuums
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