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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”

Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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