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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 Detasseler Machine Operator”

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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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