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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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