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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”

Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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