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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”

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.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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