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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 Plow Operator”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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