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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 “Cultivator”

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

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