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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 “Sprayer”

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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