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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.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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