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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”

Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

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

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