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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”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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