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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 “Vegetable Farmworker”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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