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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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