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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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