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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”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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