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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 “Orange Picker Machine Operator”

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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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