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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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