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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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