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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 “Fertilizer Applicator”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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