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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 Tractor Operator”

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.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

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Seed scales
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Pasture renovators
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Manure augers
Auger movers
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Seed drills
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Seed strippers
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Tandem disks
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Portable sprayers
Grain drills
Manure scrapers
Silo spreaders
Hay bale wrappers
Stump grinders
Harrow baskets
Crop lifters
Manure storage tanks
Seed mixers
Chisel disks
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Field rollers
Forklifts
Cargo trucks
Lime spreaders
Silage distributors
Min-till planters
Header carriers
Air seeders
Forage harvesters
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Ditchers
Dry bulk storage tanks
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Nurse tanks
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Mist blowers
Seed dryers
Compact tractors
Telehandlers
Hay tedders
Self-propelled sprayers
Forage wagons
Utility vehicles
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Bedding hippers
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Hay bale unrollers
Sprayer chassis
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Transfer augers
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
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Forage boxes
Feed grinders
Land levelers
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Silage mills
Seed conveyors
Land scrapers
Peanut digger inverters
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Seed tenders
Haybines
Grain combines
Rotary tillers
Farm tractors
Wheel loaders
Grass seeders
Skid steer loaders
Silage bins
Tractor guidance systems
Flat-ended shovels
Min-till drills
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Air reels
Hay bale accumulators
Crop shredders
Mower conditioners
Peanut digger shakers
Silage wrappers
Horizontal feed mixers
Seed hoppers
Bucket elevators
Power winches
Tomato harvesters
Hay bale conveyors
2-point sprayers
Peanut dump carts
Combine headers
Skid steer post drivers
Litter spreaders
Crop dividers
Manure separators
Rotary hoes
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Disk rippers
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Manure spreaders
Forage blowers
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Combine cylinders
Fertilizer blenders
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Compost turners
Windrow inverters
Hay bale stackers
Liquid storage tanks
3-point sprayers
Grain augers
Feed conveyors
Seed bins
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Manure chopper pumps
Fertilizer spreaders
Grain heaters
Chisel plows
Hay bale feeders
Weed wipes
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Skid steer post hole diggers
Bed shapers
Air carts
Plows
Grain wagons
Flotation sprayers
Granular applicators
Hay bale compressors
Coulter disks
Coulter rippers
Silage feeders
Grain pumps
Grain bin aeration fans
Windrowers
Hay conditioners
Peanut diggers
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Subsoilers
Grass drills
Hay bale spears
Hay bale elevators
V hay rakes
Skid sprayers
Peanut dryers
Grain vacuums
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
Hay balers
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