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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”

Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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