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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 “Laborer”

Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.

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Wheel loaders
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Auger movers
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Hay balers
Mower conditioners
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Header carriers
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Sprayer booms
Post hole diggers
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Pasture renovators
Post drivers
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Forklifts
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Roller packers
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
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All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
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Silage mills
Land levelers
Flat-ended shovels
Land planes
Tractor guidance systems
Gravity wagons
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Feed grinders
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Power winches
Peanut diggers
Grass seeders
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Hay bale trailers
Air seeders
Manure spreaders
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Tower grain dryers
Hay bale compressors
Seed dryers
Portable sprayers
Subsoilers
Hay bale spears
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Sprayer chassis
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Flotation sprayers
Hay conditioners
Forage blowers
Silage baggers
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Granular applicators
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Air drill seeders
Coulter disks
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Grain vacuums
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Liquid storage tanks
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Min-till cultivators
Grain bin aeration fans
Dry bulk storage tanks
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
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Rock windrowers
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Fertilizer spreaders
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Skid sprayers
Hay bale feeders
Hay tedders
Garlic harvesters
Silo spreaders
Combine grain headers
Chisel plows
Threshers
Combine headers
Air reels
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Manure injection systems
Hay bale elevators
Plows
Shavings spreaders
Litter spreaders
Hay bale accumulators
Self-propelled sprayers
Rotary hoes
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Hay bale unrollers
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Combine cylinders
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Seed mixers
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Harrow baskets
Mist blowers
Fertilizer blenders
Tandem disks
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Disk rippers
Windrowers
Transfer augers
Manure storage tanks
Land finishers
Manure chopper pumps
Grass drills
Silage boxes
Seed hoppers
Horizontal feed mixers
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Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
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Grain pumps
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Land scrapers
Feed conveyors
3-point sprayers
Coulter drills
Skid steer hay bale spears
Row crop cultivators
Chisel disks
Weed wipes
Silage feeders
Silage wrappers
Manure separators
Crop lifters
Grain drills
All terrain vehicles ATV
Peanut dump carts
Seed tenders
Haybines
Seed drills
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