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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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