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.
<ul><li>Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.</li><li>Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.</li><li>Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.</li><li>Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.</li><li>Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.</li><li>Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.</li><li>Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.</li><li>Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.</li></ul>