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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”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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