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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 Hop Picker”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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

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

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