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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”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.

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Land planes
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Seed drills
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All terrain vehicle ATV discs
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Skid steer tree cutters
Feed conveyors
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Post drivers
Forage boxes
Grain heaters
Coulter rippers
Fertilizer blenders
Seed hoppers
Manure injection systems
Coulter drills
Grain vacuums
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Manure augers
Air seeders
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Granular applicators
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Silo spreaders
Min-till drills
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Disk rippers
Silage mills
Header carriers
Bucket elevators
Bed shapers
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Ditchers
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Skid steer loaders
Mist blowers
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Hay bale shredders
Peanut digger inverters
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Air reels
Feed grinders
Plows
Liquid storage tanks
Horizontal feed mixers
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Coulter disks
Weed wipes
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Auger wagons
Seed tenders
Forklifts
Chisel plows
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Straw and chaff spreaders
Silage distributors
V hay rakes
Rotary hoes
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Utility vehicles
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Track tractors
Fertilizer spreaders
Manure spreaders
Transfer augers
Grain bin aeration fans
Land finishers
Hay bale trailers
Combine headers
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Peanut digger shakers
Seed bins
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Manure storage tanks
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Seed vacuums
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Air drill seeders
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Grass seeders
Wheel loaders
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Seed strippers
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Peanut diggers
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Silage wagons
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Subsoilers
Hay tedders
3-point sprayers
Hay bale compressors
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Haybines
Dry bulk storage tanks
Seed conveyors
Combine header transports
Silage boxes
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