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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 Combiner”

Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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