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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”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.

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