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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”

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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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