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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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