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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”.

Also Known As…

Tasks for “Farm Hand”

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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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