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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

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Hay bale elevators
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Subsoilers
Hay bale forks
Rotary hay rakes
Combine cylinders
Manure injection systems
Skid steer hay bale spears
Air carts
Granular applicators
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
V hay rakes
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Air seeders
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Power winches
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Hay balers
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Grain drills
Land planes
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Row crop cultivators
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Hay bale wrappers
Windrowers
Seed vacuums
Sprayer chassis
Seed scales
Bedding hippers
Silo spreaders
Skid steer post pullers
Post drivers
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Skid sprayers
Seed bins
Wheel loaders
Silage distributors
Transfer augers
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Track tractors
Offset disks
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
Tractor guidance systems
Manure storage tanks
Pasture renovators
Weed wipes
Seed drills
Grain vacuums
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Mist blowers
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Air drill seeders
Grain augers
Land scrapers
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Mower conditioners
Air reels
Sprayer booms
Combine draper headers
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Nurse tanks
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Seed conveyors
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Grain heaters
Seed mixers
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Portable sprayers
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Rotary hoes
Compost turners
Post hole diggers
Rotary tillers
Hay bale unrollers
Batch grain dryers
Feed conveyors
Dry bulk storage tanks
Roller packers
Telehandlers
Grain bin aeration fans
Combine header transports
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
Crop shredders
Hammermills
Liquid storage tanks
Skid steer rock grapples
Threshers
Combine headers
Seed dryers
Rock windrowers
Tomato harvesters
Seed hoppers
Coulter rippers
Hay conditioners
Haybines
Forage boxes
Harrow baskets
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