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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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