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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 Picker”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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