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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”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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