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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”.
Also Known As…
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Tractor Operator
- Tractor Driver
- Rake Operator
- Irrigation Worker
- Hay Baler
- Farm Laborer
- Farm Hand
- Equipment Operator
- Cutter Operator
- Baler Operator
- Windrower Operator
- Wheat Combine Driver
- Vegetable Loader Machine Operator
- Vegetable Harvest Machine Operator
- Vegetable Farmworker
- Truck Driver
- Tractor Operator Helper
- Tobacco Primer Machine Operator
- Thresher
- Sugar Cane Planting Equipment Operator
- Sugar Cane Planter Machine Operator
- Straw Baler
- Sprayer
- Seed Potato Arranger
- Rice Farmworker
- Replanting Machine Operator
- Replanting Machine Crewman
- Raking Machine Operator
- Potato Picker
- Potato Bucker
- Portable Feed Mill Operator
- Plowman
- Planting Machine Operator
- Planting Machine Crewman
- Planter
- Picker Operator
- Peanut Shaker
- Peanut Picker
- Packing Tractor Machine Operator
- Orange Picker Machine Operator
- Nut Sheller Machine Operator
- Mushroom Growth Media Mixer
- Milking Machine Operator
- Mechanic
- Machine Tender
- Machine Pecan Picker
- Machine Pecan Gatherer
- Machine Operator Transplanter
- Machine Operator Replanter
- Machine Operator Picker
- Machine Operator Hop Worker
- Machine Operator Hop Picker
- Machine Operator Hay Stacker
- Machine Operator Farmworker
- Machine Operator Cane Cutter
- Machine Milker
- Machine Farmworker
- Loader Operator
- Liquid Fertilizer Servicer
- Lime Spreader
- Laborer
- Hay Stacker Operator
- Hay Rake Operator
- Hay Chopper
- Harvester Operator
- Grain Thresher
- Grain Farmworker
- Grain Combiner
- Grain Combine Driver
- Ginning Operator
- Ginner
- Gin Operator
- General Farmworker
- Fruit Thinner, Machine Operator
- Fruit Picker, Machine Operator
- Fruit Loader, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvester, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvest Machine Operator
- Fruit Farmworker
- Field Hauler
- Field Crops Harvest Machine Operator
- Field Crop Farmworker
- Fertilizing Machine Operator
- Fertilizer Applicator
- Farmer
- Farm Worker
- Farm Tractor Operator
- Farm Manager
- Farm Machine Tender
- Farm Equipment Operator
- Equipment Operator Wage Hand
- Diversified Crops Farmworker
- Dairy Machine Operator Farmworker
- Custom Harvester
- Custom Applicator
- Cotton Stripper
- Cotton Picker Operator
- Cotton Ginner
- Cotton Chopper
- Cotton Baler
- Corn Husker Machine Operator
- Corn Detasseler Machine Operator
- Corn Cutter
- Combine Operator
- Combine Driver
- Chopper Operator
- Cane Piler
- Cane Flume Feeding Machine Operator
- Cane Flume Chute Operator
- Bulbs Farmworker
- Broomcorn Thresher
- Berry Picker Machine Operator
- Bean Picker Machine Operator
- Baler
- Agricultural Plow Operator
- Agricultural Equipment Operator
Tasks for “Cultivator”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
- 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.
- Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
- 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.
- Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
- Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Related Technology & Tools
- Grass seeders
- Offset disks
- Silage baggers
- Silage distributors
- Compact tractors
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Rotary hoes
- Harrow baskets
- Hay bale trailers
- Forage tractors
- Auger wagons
- Crop shredders
- Manure injection systems
- Manure storage tanks
- Skid steer post drivers
- Backhoes
- Wheel loaders
- Cargo trucks
- Roller packers
- Tomato harvesters
- Transfer augers
- V hay rakes
- Seed dryers
- Seed vacuums
- Telehandlers
- Silage mills
- Grain wagons
- Forage harvesters
- Grain pumps
- Disk rippers
- Skid steer rock grapples
- Windrow inverters
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Flotation sprayers
- Grain vacuums
- Seed scales
- Land rollers
- Coulter rippers
- Silage feeders
- Rock windrowers
- 2-point sprayers
- Forage boxes
- Compost turners
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Tractor guidance systems
- Grain heaters
- Fertilizer blenders
- Sprayer chassis
- Feed grinders
- Windrowers
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Combine headers
- Feed mixer wagons
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Auger movers
- Subsoilers
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Header carriers
- Track tractors
- Silage boxes
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Combine header transports
- Hay bale shredders
- Gravity wagons
- Manure scrapers
- Crop dividers
- Field cultivators
- Mower conditioners
- Min-till cultivators
- Lime spreaders
- Skid sprayers
- Hay bale loaders
- Land scrapers
- Air reels
- Soybean combine harvesters
- Forage blowers
- Feed conveyors
- Rotary hay rakes
- Peanut digger inverters
- Stump grinders
- Peanut harvesters
- Seed drills
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- Weed wipes
- Silage wrappers
- Coulter disks
- Power winches
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- Air seeders
- Field rollers
- Granular applicators
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Hay bale wrappers
- Liquid storage tanks
- Peanut dryers
- Chisel disks
- Land levelers
- Bucket elevators
- Forklifts
- Chisel plows
- Peanut digger shakers
- Bed shapers
- Shavings spreaders
- Seed strippers
- Skid steer post pullers
- Seed mixers
- Haybines
- Manure separators
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Air carts
- Skid steer loaders
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Subcompact tractors
- Bedding hippers
- Mist blowers
- Threshers
- Hay bale stackers
- Seed hoppers
- Combine cylinders
- Plows
- Ditchers
- Post drivers
- Hay balers
- Silo spreaders
- Hay bale spears
- Peanut dump carts
- Min-till planters
- Hay bale movers
- Hay bale forks
- Sprayer booms
- Hay bale accumulators
- Hay bale compressors
- Hay bale unrollers
- Manure augers
- Pasture renovators
- Grass drills
- Rotary tillers
- Seed conveyors
- Garlic harvesters
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- 3-point sprayers
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Chaff spreaders
- Hay conditioners
- Grain combines
- Forage wagons
- Hay bale conveyors
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Batch grain dryers
- Tandem disks
- Silage wagons
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Combine grain headers
- Land planes
- Manure spreaders
- Portable sprayers
- Min-till drills
- Hay tedders
- Hay bale elevators
- Hammermills
- Peanut diggers
- Seed tenders
- Flat-ended shovels
- Combine draper headers
- Utility vehicles
- Swath turners
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- Litter spreaders
- Coulter drills
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Land finishers
- Seed bins
- Farm tractors
- Row crop cultivators
- Grain augers
- Post hole diggers
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Air drill seeders
- Grain drills
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Crop lifters
- Silage bins
- Nurse tanks
- Hay bale feeders
- Tower grain dryers
- Manure chopper pumps
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager
- Martens Farms Farm Trac
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate