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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 “Grain Combine Driver”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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