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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 Husker Machine Operator”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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