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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”

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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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 towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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