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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”

Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
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.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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