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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”

Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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