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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”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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