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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”

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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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