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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 “Farm Hand”

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.
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.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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