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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”

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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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