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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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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