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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”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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