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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”

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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment 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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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