Ag Equipment Operator

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Seasonal/temporary work from 2/15/2025 - 12/1/2025

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using

conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers. Mix specified

materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into

planter or sprayer machinery. Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to

control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand

sprayers. Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment

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.

Maintain farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery

malfunctions. Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or

harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools. Load hoppers,

containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using

forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting,

weeding, or harvesting activities. Operate towed machines such as seed

drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in

planter mechanisms at specified intervals. 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. Drive and

operate farm machinery to plant, cultivate, harvest and store grain

crops. Till soil, plant and cultivate grain. Drive and operate

self-propelled combine. Record information about crops, such as

pesticide use, yields, or costs. Set up and operate irrigation

equipment. Inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress. Operate

tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plow,

harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray and harvest

crops. Clean work areas, and maintain grounds and landscaping. Crops:

Soybeans, Corn, Rice, Winter Wheat

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