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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”

Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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