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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 Picker”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

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Forage blowers
Feed conveyors
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Transfer augers
Seed mixers
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Bucket elevators
Granular applicators
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Air drill seeders
Hay conditioners
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Litter spreaders
All terrain vehicles ATV
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Air reels
Seed drills
Portable sprayers
Post hole diggers
Subcompact tractors
Ditchers
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Disk rippers
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Hay bale spears
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2-point sprayers
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Haybines
Land rollers
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All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Land finishers
Rotary hay rakes
Skid steer tree cutters
Hay tedders
Bed shapers
Liquid storage tanks
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Mower conditioners
Straw and chaff spreaders
Hay bale shredders
Gravity wagons
V hay rakes
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Seed bins
Combine draper headers
Tandem disks
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Chisel disks
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Offset disks
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Manure separators
Power winches
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Land levelers
Skid steer post pullers
Air seeders
Forklifts
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Rotary hoes
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Hay bale movers
Seed scales
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Batch grain dryers
Field rollers
Hay bale stackers
Seed strippers
All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
Skid steer loaders
Manure storage tanks
Seed dryers
Sprayer chassis
Silage boxes
Hay bale feeders
Skid steer rotary tillers
Hay bale trailers
Skid sprayers
Flotation sprayers
Combine cylinders
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