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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 “Laborer”

Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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