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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”

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

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