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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 “Farm Equipment Operator”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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