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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”

Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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Air carts
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Disk rippers
Pasture renovators
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Hay bale movers
Field rollers
Telehandlers
Seed tenders
Subsoilers
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Sprayer booms
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Skid steer rotary tillers
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Compact tractors
Combine header transports
Coulter rippers
Feed grinders
Land planes
Coulter disks
Seed drills
Auger movers
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Grain vacuums
Chisel disks
Hay bale trailers
Hay bale compressors
Crop dividers
Stump grinders
Ditchers
Air drill seeders
2-point sprayers
Liquid storage tanks
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Grain bin aeration fans
Silage wrappers
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
Skid steer post hole diggers
Manure augers
Swath turners
Land rollers
Hay bale accumulators
Silage mills
Roller packers
Forage tractors
Manure storage tanks
Rotary hoes
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Windrow inverters
Manure chopper pumps
Seed vacuums
Min-till drills
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Min-till cultivators
Weed wipes
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Harrow baskets
Hay conditioners
Bed shapers
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Skid steer post pullers
Silo spreaders
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Row crop cultivators
Land levelers
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All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
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Forage wagons
Skid steer loaders
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Hay bale forks
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Offset disks
Seed mixers
Auger wagons
V hay rakes
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
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Skid steer post drivers
Grain pumps
Plows
Grain wagons
Compost turners
Haybines
Threshers
Hay bale wrappers
Forage blowers
Bucket elevators
Flotation sprayers
Transfer augers
Grass drills
Manure injection systems
Self-propelled sprayers
3-point sprayers
Horizontal feed mixers
Land finishers
Cargo trucks
Sprayer chassis
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Hay bale unrollers
Wheel loaders
Garlic harvesters
Combine grain headers
Combine draper headers
Grain drills
Air reels
Mist blowers
Feed mixer wagons
Post hole diggers
Hay bale feeders
Air seeders
Coulter drills
Silage bins
Peanut diggers
Silage feeders
Fertilizer blenders
Peanut harvesters
Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
Grain heaters
Seed scales
Hay bale elevators
Backhoes
Fertilizer spreaders
Header carriers
Power winches
Grain augers
Silage wagons
Bedding hippers
Seed hoppers
Hay bale stackers
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Tractor guidance systems
Forage boxes
Dry bulk storage tanks
Batch grain dryers
Peanut digger shakers
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Skid sprayers
Field cultivators
Silage distributors
Hay bale spears
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