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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 “Thresher”

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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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 hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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