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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 “Grain Thresher”

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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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