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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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