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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”

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.
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.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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