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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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