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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”

Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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