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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”

Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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