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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 “Field Crops Harvest Machine Operator”

Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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