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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 “Picker Operator”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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