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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 Pecan Picker”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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