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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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