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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 Operator Farmworker”

Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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