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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”

Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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