agricultural equipment operator

Job duties will include: clean work areas and maintain grounds and landscaping, identify plants, pests, and weeds to determine the selection and application of pesticides and fertilizers, inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress, load agricultural products into trucks, and drive trucks to market or storage facilities, operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, c ultivate, spray and harvest crops, participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops, record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs, record information about plants and plant growth, repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment, repair farm buildings, fences, and other structures, clean equipment or facilities, confer with managers to make operational decisions, evaluate quality of plants or crops, harvest agricultural products, maintain forestry, hunting, or agricultural equipment, maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products, maintain operational records, operate farming equipment, prepare land for agricultural use, transport crops, or equipment. Help with spraying of noxious weeds. Maintaining fences. General farm labor is needed to maintain ag equipment during this time. Harvest of crops during late summer to fall. Cleaning of buildings, vehicles, ag equipment. Haying with equipment, producing round bales. Will help move cattle from pasture to pasture by 4-wheelers. Load out and haul cattle with stock trailer. Brand, vaccinate, and castrate young calves during the spring. No cattle help is needed during the rest of the year. The employer, at its sole discretion, may grant pay increases based on factors such as performance, longevity, and/or experience. Workers returning for a consecutive season will be paid $20.00/hr if that rate exceeds the current published rate.