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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 Laborer”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

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