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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”

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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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