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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 Worker”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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