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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”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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