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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 “Irrigation Worker”

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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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