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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”

Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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