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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”

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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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