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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 “Harvester Operator”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
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.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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