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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 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.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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