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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 “Equipment Operator”

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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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