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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”

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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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