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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”

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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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