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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”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

Related Technology & Tools

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