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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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