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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.
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.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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