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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”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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