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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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