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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 Harvester”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer 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 or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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