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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 “Potato Bucker”

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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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