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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”

Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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