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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”

Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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