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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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