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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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