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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”

Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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