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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 “General Farmworker”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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