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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”

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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
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.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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