description
Drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops; feeding and herding livestock; or removing animal waste. 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.
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Currently Employed:
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Projected Annual Job Openings:
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Typical Hourly Wage:
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typical training
Typical education needed for entry:
No formal educational credential
Typical work experience needed for a job in this occupation:
No work experience
Typical on-the-job training once you have a job in this occupation:
1 to 12 months on-the-job training
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typical job duties
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Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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tools & technology
Tools:
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Container trailers
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Fertilizer spreaders or distributors
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Harvesters
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Haymaking machinery
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Seed drills
Technology:
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Data base user interface and query software
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Enterprise resource planning ERP software
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Map creation software
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Presentation software
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Spreadsheet software
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