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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 Picker, Machine Operator”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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