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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 “Grain Farmworker”

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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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