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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 Loader, Machine Operator”

Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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