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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”

Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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