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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 Machine Tender”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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