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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
- General Farmworker
- 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 “Gin Operator”
- Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
- 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.
- Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
- Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
- Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
- 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.
- Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
- Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
- Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
- Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
- 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 and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
- Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Related Technology & Tools
- Rotary hoes
- Ditchers
- Row crop cultivators
- Silo spreaders
- Harrow baskets
- Forage tractors
- Chaff spreaders
- Silage bins
- Grain drills
- Tomato harvesters
- Header carriers
- Stump grinders
- Forage harvesters
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Hay bale feeders
- Grain vacuums
- Auger wagons
- Forklifts
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Rotary hay rakes
- Combine grain headers
- Shavings spreaders
- Air drill seeders
- Subcompact tractors
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Power winches
- Air carts
- Tractor guidance systems
- Seed dryers
- Coulter disks
- Lime spreaders
- Swath turners
- Crop shredders
- Hay bale unrollers
- Seed drills
- Seed tenders
- Combine headers
- Post hole diggers
- Air reels
- 3-point sprayers
- Peanut digger inverters
- Hay bale conveyors
- Threshers
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Skid steer post drivers
- Hay bale stackers
- Cargo trucks
- Forage blowers
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- Skid steer loaders
- Seed mixers
- Manure scrapers
- Track tractors
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Manure spreaders
- Backhoes
- Mist blowers
- Tower grain dryers
- Flat-ended shovels
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- Hay bale loaders
- Hay bale trailers
- Peanut dryers
- Hammermills
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Weed wipes
- Silage mills
- Silage baggers
- Min-till planters
- Air seeders
- Hay bale accumulators
- Skid steer rock grapples
- Rock windrowers
- Transfer augers
- Fertilizer blenders
- Silage boxes
- Telehandlers
- Seed conveyors
- Silage wagons
- Field rollers
- Hay bale spears
- Seed hoppers
- Mower conditioners
- Combine header transports
- Windrow inverters
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- Litter spreaders
- Silage feeders
- Bucket elevators
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Silage distributors
- Seed scales
- Hay balers
- Plows
- Pasture renovators
- Batch grain dryers
- Portable sprayers
- Coulter rippers
- Skid sprayers
- Roller packers
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Manure separators
- Sprayer chassis
- Min-till cultivators
- Grain augers
- Haybines
- Subsoilers
- Chisel disks
- Land rollers
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Post drivers
- 2-point sprayers
- Offset disks
- Grass seeders
- Hay bale shredders
- Combine cylinders
- Combine draper headers
- Auger movers
- Feed conveyors
- V hay rakes
- Silage wrappers
- Flotation sprayers
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- Farm tractors
- Grain wagons
- Min-till drills
- Hay conditioners
- Crop lifters
- Feed mixer wagons
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Grain pumps
- Feed grinders
- Hay bale wrappers
- Hay bale compressors
- Forage boxes
- Forage wagons
- Nurse tanks
- Utility vehicles
- Rotary tillers
- Land finishers
- Manure storage tanks
- Grain combines
- Grass drills
- Bedding hippers
- Sprayer booms
- Hay bale movers
- Manure chopper pumps
- Manure augers
- Garlic harvesters
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Bed shapers
- Disk rippers
- Tandem disks
- Seed strippers
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Hay tedders
- Compact tractors
- Peanut dump carts
- Land scrapers
- Hay bale forks
- Seed bins
- Liquid storage tanks
- Peanut digger shakers
- Field cultivators
- Seed vacuums
- Coulter drills
- Soybean combine harvesters
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Gravity wagons
- Grain heaters
- Crop dividers
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Peanut harvesters
- Chisel plows
- Peanut diggers
- Wheel loaders
- Windrowers
- Land planes
- Manure injection systems
- Hay bale elevators
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Skid steer post pullers
- Compost turners
- Land levelers
- Granular applicators
- Martens Farms Farm Trac
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager