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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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