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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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