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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 “Dairy Machine Operator Farmworker”

Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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