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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 hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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