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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 “Irrigation Worker”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

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All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Power winches
Land rollers
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Chisel plows
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Peanut digger inverters
Seed strippers
Transfer augers
Flat-ended shovels
Min-till cultivators
Mower conditioners
Grain vacuums
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Silage bins
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Ditchers
Batch grain dryers
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Subsoilers
Pasture renovators
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Windrowers
Silage boxes
Manure scrapers
Peanut dryers
Manure storage tanks
Seed tenders
Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
Land finishers
Combine draper headers
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Tandem disks
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Hay conditioners
Litter spreaders
Chaff spreaders
Self-propelled sprayers
Silage wrappers
Land scrapers
Horizontal feed mixers
Skid steer post hole diggers
Crop dividers
Grain pumps
Sprayer booms
Combine cylinders
Haybines
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Tomato harvesters
Field rollers
Fertilizer spreaders
Feed conveyors
Silage distributors
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Combine header transports
Roller packers
Hay bale movers
Backhoes
Min-till planters
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Air seeders
Peanut harvesters
Coulter disks
Manure injection systems
Seed scales
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Land planes
Straw and chaff spreaders
Hay bale wrappers
Peanut dump carts
Combine grain headers
Hay bale shredders
Dry bulk storage tanks
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Skid steer loaders
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Auger wagons
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2-point sprayers
Rotary hay rakes
Header carriers
Skid steer tree cutters
Seed conveyors
Granular applicators
Windrow inverters
Disk rippers
Threshers
Plows
Coulter rippers
Seed vacuums
Hay bale feeders
Air carts
Forage boxes
Feed grinders
Shavings spreaders
Mist blowers
Field cultivators
Row crop cultivators
Stump grinders
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Manure separators
Swath turners
Grain heaters
Auger movers
Portable sprayers
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Manure augers
3-point sprayers
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Hay tedders
Manure spreaders
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All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Sprayer chassis
Min-till drills
Rotary tillers
Wheel loaders
Offset disks
Hay bale elevators
Gravity wagons
Grain drills
Telehandlers
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
Skid steer post drivers
Hay bale stackers
Skid steer rotary tillers
Skid steer hay bale spears
Track tractors
Hay bale loaders
Lime spreaders
Rock windrowers
Grain combines
Post drivers
Air drill seeders
Peanut digger shakers
Seed bins
V hay rakes
Rotary hoes
Air reels
Grain augers
Tractor guidance systems
Seed mixers
Hay bale unrollers
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