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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”

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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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