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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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