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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”

Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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