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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 “Irrigation Worker”

Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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