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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 “Farm Hand”

Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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