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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”

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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

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Silage boxes
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Seed vacuums
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Skid steer tree cutters
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Chisel plows
Hay bale trailers
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Rotary hoes
Grass seeders
Hay bale stackers
Skid steer post pullers
Power winches
Seed dryers
Crop lifters
Rotary hay rakes
Combine draper headers
Field cultivators
Silage wrappers
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Auger movers
Feed conveyors
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Seed conveyors
Tandem disks
Haybines
Feed grinders
Seed hoppers
3-point sprayers
Min-till planters
Plows
Land finishers
Coulter drills
Telehandlers
Rotary tillers
Peanut harvesters
Lime spreaders
Land rollers
Weed wipes
Forage harvesters
Manure scrapers
Swath turners
Portable sprayers
Seed bins
Coulter disks
Skid steer loaders
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Grain vacuums
Silage baggers
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Hay bale forks
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Hay balers
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Wheel loaders
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Air seeders
Hay bale movers
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All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
Peanut diggers
Bedding hippers
Seed drills
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
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Min-till drills
Litter spreaders
Chaff spreaders
Horizontal feed mixers
Manure injection systems
Forage boxes
Hammermills
Air drill seeders
Sprayer chassis
Hay bale spears
Rock windrowers
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Fertilizer spreaders
Forage blowers
Ditchers
Silage mills
Land planes
Granular applicators
Mist blowers
Hay bale feeders
Hay bale compressors
Hay bale unrollers
Skid sprayers
Manure spreaders
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Seed strippers
Manure chopper pumps
Land scrapers
Silage distributors
Hay conditioners
Track tractors
Mower conditioners
Air reels
Manure storage tanks
Sprayer booms
Grain wagons
Harrow baskets
Feed mixer wagons
Silage feeders
Grain heaters
Bucket elevators
Hay bale loaders
Air carts
Grain pumps
Grain combines
Compost turners
Farm tractors
Min-till cultivators
Combine header transports
Subcompact tractors
Skid steer post drivers
Seed tenders
Garlic harvesters
Hay bale wrappers
Self-propelled sprayers
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Auger wagons
Grain drills
Forklifts
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Skid steer post hole diggers
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