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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”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
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.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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