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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 hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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