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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 “Machine Farmworker”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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