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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”

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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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