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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 “Fruit Loader, Machine Operator”

Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

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Land scrapers
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Seed strippers
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Hay tedders
Weed wipes
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Land planes
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Silage boxes
Tractor guidance systems
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Swath turners
Seed bins
All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
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Coulter drills
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
Haybines
Transfer augers
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Skid sprayers
Hay balers
Mist blowers
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Forage boxes
Hay bale stackers
Field rollers
Manure injection systems
Silage feeders
Portable sprayers
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Hay bale conveyors
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Rotary hay rakes
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Bed shapers
Post hole diggers
Skid steer loaders
Rotary hoes
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Silo spreaders
Pasture renovators
Auger wagons
Rotary tillers
Header carriers
Grain drills
Forage blowers
Grass seeders
Coulter rippers
Bucket elevators
Hay bale accumulators
Crop shredders
Peanut digger shakers
Seed mixers
Disk rippers
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Air drill seeders
Feed grinders
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Grass drills
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Land finishers
Grain augers
Chaff spreaders
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Batch grain dryers
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Hay bale movers
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Peanut harvesters
Hay bale compressors
Seed conveyors
Grain pumps
Grain bin aeration fans
Silage bins
Offset disks
Rock windrowers
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All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Plows
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Auger movers
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Hay bale elevators
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Air carts
Field cultivators
Forage wagons
Peanut dryers
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Skid steer rock grapples
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Land levelers
Combine grain headers
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Land rollers
Dry bulk storage tanks
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Telehandlers
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Nurse tanks
Ditchers
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Post drivers
Hay bale loaders
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Fertilizer spreaders
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