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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 “Combine Operator”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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