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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”.
Also Known As…
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Tractor Operator
- Tractor Driver
- Rake Operator
- Irrigation Worker
- Hay Baler
- Farm Laborer
- Farm Hand
- Equipment Operator
- Cutter Operator
- Baler Operator
- Windrower Operator
- Wheat Combine Driver
- Vegetable Loader Machine Operator
- Vegetable Harvest Machine Operator
- Vegetable Farmworker
- Truck Driver
- Tractor Operator Helper
- Tobacco Primer Machine Operator
- Thresher
- Sugar Cane Planting Equipment Operator
- Sugar Cane Planter Machine Operator
- Straw Baler
- Sprayer
- Seed Potato Arranger
- Rice Farmworker
- Replanting Machine Operator
- Replanting Machine Crewman
- Raking Machine Operator
- Potato Picker
- Potato Bucker
- Portable Feed Mill Operator
- Plowman
- Planting Machine Operator
- Planting Machine Crewman
- Planter
- Picker Operator
- Peanut Shaker
- Peanut Picker
- Packing Tractor Machine Operator
- Orange Picker Machine Operator
- Nut Sheller Machine Operator
- Mushroom Growth Media Mixer
- Milking Machine Operator
- Mechanic
- Machine Tender
- Machine Pecan Picker
- Machine Pecan Gatherer
- Machine Operator Transplanter
- Machine Operator Replanter
- Machine Operator Picker
- Machine Operator Hop Worker
- Machine Operator Hop Picker
- Machine Operator Hay Stacker
- Machine Operator Farmworker
- Machine Operator Cane Cutter
- Machine Milker
- Machine Farmworker
- Loader Operator
- Liquid Fertilizer Servicer
- Lime Spreader
- Laborer
- Hay Stacker Operator
- Hay Rake Operator
- Hay Chopper
- Harvester Operator
- Grain Thresher
- Grain Farmworker
- Grain Combiner
- Grain Combine Driver
- Ginning Operator
- Ginner
- Gin Operator
- Fruit Thinner, Machine Operator
- Fruit Picker, Machine Operator
- Fruit Loader, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvester, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvest Machine Operator
- Fruit Farmworker
- Field Hauler
- Field Crops Harvest Machine Operator
- Field Crop Farmworker
- Fertilizing Machine Operator
- Fertilizer Applicator
- Farmer
- Farm Worker
- Farm Tractor Operator
- Farm Manager
- Farm Machine Tender
- Farm Equipment Operator
- Equipment Operator Wage Hand
- Diversified Crops Farmworker
- Dairy Machine Operator Farmworker
- Custom Harvester
- Custom Applicator
- Cultivator
- Cotton Stripper
- Cotton Picker Operator
- Cotton Ginner
- Cotton Chopper
- Cotton Baler
- Corn Husker Machine Operator
- Corn Detasseler Machine Operator
- Corn Cutter
- Combine Operator
- Combine Driver
- Chopper Operator
- Cane Piler
- Cane Flume Feeding Machine Operator
- Cane Flume Chute Operator
- Bulbs Farmworker
- Broomcorn Thresher
- Berry Picker Machine Operator
- Bean Picker Machine Operator
- Baler
- Agricultural Plow Operator
- Agricultural Equipment Operator
Tasks for “General Farmworker”
- Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
- Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
- Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
- Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
- 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.
- Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
- 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.
- Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
- 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.
- Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Hay bale wrappers
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Hay bale loaders
- Lime spreaders
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Min-till drills
- Forage wagons
- Swath turners
- Auger movers
- Hay bale trailers
- Air drill seeders
- Skid steer post pullers
- Skid steer loaders
- Grain vacuums
- Peanut harvesters
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Power winches
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Hay bale spears
- Chisel disks
- Min-till cultivators
- Liquid storage tanks
- Farm tractors
- Seed hoppers
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- Manure separators
- Mower conditioners
- Manure chopper pumps
- Silage bins
- Track tractors
- Feed mixer wagons
- Grain combines
- Grain pumps
- Manure injection systems
- Hay bale stackers
- Silage wagons
- Rock windrowers
- Header carriers
- Peanut diggers
- Wheel loaders
- Crop lifters
- Seed scales
- Combine draper headers
- Feed grinders
- Min-till planters
- Air seeders
- Grain heaters
- Land finishers
- Rotary tillers
- Grain drills
- Land levelers
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Seed strippers
- Combine cylinders
- Tomato harvesters
- Silage boxes
- Hay bale conveyors
- Transfer augers
- Windrowers
- Silage distributors
- Disk rippers
- Bucket elevators
- Bed shapers
- Chisel plows
- Hay bale compressors
- Hay bale shredders
- Compact tractors
- Hay bale forks
- Manure spreaders
- Row crop cultivators
- Batch grain dryers
- Hay balers
- Hay bale unrollers
- Hay tedders
- Gravity wagons
- Feed conveyors
- Sprayer booms
- Forage boxes
- Shavings spreaders
- Seed conveyors
- Silage baggers
- 3-point sprayers
- Fertilizer blenders
- Tower grain dryers
- Land scrapers
- Ditchers
- Seed bins
- Offset disks
- Silage mills
- Threshers
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Subcompact tractors
- Seed vacuums
- Pasture renovators
- Grain wagons
- Silage wrappers
- Cargo trucks
- Telehandlers
- 2-point sprayers
- Mist blowers
- Peanut dump carts
- Grass seeders
- Coulter drills
- Forage blowers
- Harrow baskets
- Post drivers
- Air carts
- Grain augers
- Combine headers
- Hammermills
- Coulter disks
- V hay rakes
- Hay conditioners
- Granular applicators
- Hay bale feeders
- Combine grain headers
- Hay bale elevators
- Compost turners
- Coulter rippers
- Sprayer chassis
- Weed wipes
- Crop dividers
- Combine header transports
- Windrow inverters
- Seed dryers
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Portable sprayers
- Subsoilers
- Forklifts
- Field rollers
- Plows
- Seed drills
- Post hole diggers
- Forage harvesters
- Bedding hippers
- Manure storage tanks
- Peanut digger inverters
- Forage tractors
- Field cultivators
- Soybean combine harvesters
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Nurse tanks
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Flotation sprayers
- Crop shredders
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Hay bale movers
- Hay bale accumulators
- Utility vehicles
- Rotary hoes
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Grass drills
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Flat-ended shovels
- Litter spreaders
- Manure augers
- Skid steer post drivers
- Chaff spreaders
- Rotary hay rakes
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- Roller packers
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- Seed mixers
- Land rollers
- Silage feeders
- Land planes
- Skid sprayers
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Haybines
- Peanut dryers
- Tractor guidance systems
- Seed tenders
- Skid steer rock grapples
- Manure scrapers
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- Air reels
- Stump grinders
- Peanut digger shakers
- Silo spreaders
- Auger wagons
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Garlic harvesters
- Tandem disks
- Backhoes
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Martens Farms Farm Trac
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate