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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”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
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.

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Post drivers
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Land finishers
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Seed hoppers
Seed conveyors
Cargo trucks
Nurse tanks
Skid steer post pullers
Granular applicators
Crop shredders
Seed bins
Hay bale compressors
Windrowers
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
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Land scrapers
Fertilizer spreaders
Sprayer chassis
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Land planes
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Plows
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Rotary hoes
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V hay rakes
Hay bale loaders
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Manure spreaders
Forklifts
Wheel loaders
Auger wagons
Silage feeders
Peanut digger shakers
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Feed conveyors
Rock windrowers
Auger movers
Seed tenders
Crop dividers
Min-till drills
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Fertilizer blenders
Hay bale forks
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Manure scrapers
Peanut diggers
Bucket elevators
Litter spreaders
Header carriers
Peanut dryers
Manure storage tanks
Silo spreaders
Combine headers
Compost turners
Transfer augers
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Forage blowers
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Seed dryers
Offset disks
Horizontal feed mixers
Coulter rippers
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