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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”

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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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