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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”

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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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