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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 “Custom Applicator”

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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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