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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 “Agricultural Equipment Operator”

Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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