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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 “Rice Farmworker”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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