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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”

Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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