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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”.
Also Known As…
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Tractor Operator
- Tractor Driver
- Rake Operator
- Irrigation Worker
- Hay Baler
- Farm Laborer
- Farm Hand
- Equipment Operator
- Cutter Operator
- Baler Operator
- Windrower Operator
- Wheat Combine Driver
- Vegetable Loader Machine Operator
- Vegetable Harvest Machine Operator
- Vegetable Farmworker
- Truck Driver
- Tractor Operator Helper
- Tobacco Primer Machine Operator
- Thresher
- Sugar Cane Planting Equipment Operator
- Sugar Cane Planter Machine Operator
- Straw Baler
- Sprayer
- Seed Potato Arranger
- Rice Farmworker
- Replanting Machine Operator
- Replanting Machine Crewman
- Raking Machine Operator
- Potato Picker
- Potato Bucker
- Portable Feed Mill Operator
- Plowman
- Planting Machine Operator
- Planting Machine Crewman
- Planter
- Picker Operator
- Peanut Shaker
- Peanut Picker
- Packing Tractor Machine Operator
- Orange Picker Machine Operator
- Nut Sheller Machine Operator
- Mushroom Growth Media Mixer
- Milking Machine Operator
- Mechanic
- Machine Tender
- Machine Pecan Picker
- Machine Pecan Gatherer
- Machine Operator Transplanter
- Machine Operator Replanter
- Machine Operator Picker
- Machine Operator Hop Worker
- Machine Operator Hop Picker
- Machine Operator Hay Stacker
- Machine Operator Farmworker
- Machine Operator Cane Cutter
- Machine Milker
- Machine Farmworker
- Loader Operator
- Liquid Fertilizer Servicer
- Lime Spreader
- Laborer
- Hay Stacker Operator
- Hay Rake Operator
- Hay Chopper
- Harvester Operator
- Grain Thresher
- Grain Farmworker
- Grain Combiner
- Grain Combine Driver
- Ginning Operator
- Ginner
- Gin Operator
- General Farmworker
- Fruit Thinner, Machine Operator
- Fruit Picker, Machine Operator
- Fruit Loader, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvester, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvest Machine Operator
- Fruit Farmworker
- Field Hauler
- Field Crops Harvest Machine Operator
- Field Crop Farmworker
- Fertilizing Machine Operator
- Fertilizer Applicator
- Farmer
- Farm Worker
- Farm Tractor Operator
- Farm Manager
- Farm Machine Tender
- Farm Equipment Operator
- Equipment Operator Wage Hand
- Diversified Crops Farmworker
- Dairy Machine Operator Farmworker
- Custom Harvester
- Custom Applicator
- Cultivator
- Cotton Stripper
- Cotton Picker Operator
- Cotton Ginner
- Cotton Chopper
- Cotton Baler
- Corn Husker Machine Operator
- Corn Detasseler Machine Operator
- Corn Cutter
- Combine Operator
- Combine Driver
- Chopper Operator
- Cane Piler
- Cane Flume Feeding Machine Operator
- Cane Flume Chute Operator
- Bulbs Farmworker
- Broomcorn Thresher
- Berry Picker Machine Operator
- Bean Picker Machine Operator
- Agricultural Plow Operator
- Agricultural Equipment Operator
Tasks for “Baler”
- Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
- Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
- Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
- 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.
- Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
- Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Related Technology & Tools
- Compost turners
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Silage baggers
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- Forage wagons
- Seed scales
- Nurse tanks
- Forage harvesters
- Pasture renovators
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Crop lifters
- Rotary hoes
- Manure injection systems
- Post hole diggers
- Manure scrapers
- Bed shapers
- Min-till planters
- Land finishers
- Backhoes
- Seed bins
- Skid steer post pullers
- Telehandlers
- Gravity wagons
- Seed strippers
- Grain pumps
- Grain augers
- Post drivers
- Min-till cultivators
- Silage feeders
- Skid steer post drivers
- Coulter drills
- Sprayer booms
- Seed mixers
- Combine grain headers
- Peanut dryers
- Chisel disks
- Silage boxes
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Grain wagons
- Header carriers
- Disk rippers
- Combine header transports
- Weed wipes
- Offset disks
- Silage wagons
- V hay rakes
- Threshers
- Manure spreaders
- Ditchers
- Grain drills
- Manure chopper pumps
- Peanut dump carts
- Wheel loaders
- Hay bale wrappers
- Grain combines
- Peanut digger inverters
- Compact tractors
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Skid steer loaders
- Manure storage tanks
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Rock windrowers
- Seed hoppers
- Hay bale elevators
- Forage boxes
- Silo spreaders
- Sprayer chassis
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Hay bale unrollers
- Hay conditioners
- Seed tenders
- Hay bale spears
- Farm tractors
- Hay bale loaders
- 2-point sprayers
- Hay bale stackers
- Auger wagons
- Mower conditioners
- Cargo trucks
- 3-point sprayers
- Grass seeders
- Tomato harvesters
- Bucket elevators
- Plows
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Air reels
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Track tractors
- Seed vacuums
- Rotary hay rakes
- Subsoilers
- Land levelers
- Chisel plows
- Roller packers
- Combine headers
- Liquid storage tanks
- Combine cylinders
- Seed conveyors
- Hay bale accumulators
- Manure augers
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Mist blowers
- Harrow baskets
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Utility vehicles
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Peanut digger shakers
- Skid steer rock grapples
- Silage wrappers
- Skid sprayers
- Flotation sprayers
- Seed dryers
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- Bedding hippers
- Hammermills
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- Transfer augers
- Hay bale shredders
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Combine draper headers
- Land rollers
- Swath turners
- Grass drills
- Hay bale conveyors
- Crop shredders
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Hay bale feeders
- Tractor guidance systems
- Forage blowers
- Tandem disks
- Lime spreaders
- Feed mixer wagons
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Crop dividers
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Subcompact tractors
- Stump grinders
- Feed grinders
- Hay bale movers
- Auger movers
- Silage mills
- Garlic harvesters
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Coulter rippers
- Air seeders
- Shavings spreaders
- Soybean combine harvesters
- Litter spreaders
- Hay bale compressors
- Portable sprayers
- Haybines
- Field cultivators
- Land planes
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Windrow inverters
- Windrowers
- Batch grain dryers
- Forklifts
- Hay bale forks
- Air drill seeders
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- Hay balers
- Feed conveyors
- Air carts
- Peanut diggers
- Field rollers
- Granular applicators
- Seed drills
- Tower grain dryers
- Manure separators
- Coulter disks
- Hay tedders
- Power winches
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- Flat-ended shovels
- Row crop cultivators
- Hay bale trailers
- Grain heaters
- Grain vacuums
- Min-till drills
- Silage bins
- Silage distributors
- Chaff spreaders
- Rotary tillers
- Forage tractors
- Peanut harvesters
- Land scrapers
- Fertilizer blenders
- Martens Farms Farm Trac
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate