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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”

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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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