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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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