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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 Harvester, Machine Operator”

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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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