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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 Milker”

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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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