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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 Thresher”

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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

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