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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”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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