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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”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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