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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 “Corn Cutter”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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