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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 “Peanut Picker”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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