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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”.
Also Known As…
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Tractor Operator
- Tractor Driver
- Rake Operator
- Irrigation Worker
- Hay Baler
- Farm Laborer
- Farm Hand
- Equipment Operator
- Cutter Operator
- Baler Operator
- Windrower Operator
- Wheat Combine Driver
- Vegetable Loader Machine Operator
- Vegetable Harvest Machine Operator
- Vegetable Farmworker
- Truck Driver
- Tractor Operator Helper
- Tobacco Primer Machine Operator
- Thresher
- Sugar Cane Planting Equipment Operator
- Sugar Cane Planter Machine Operator
- Straw Baler
- Sprayer
- Seed Potato Arranger
- Rice Farmworker
- Replanting Machine Operator
- Replanting Machine Crewman
- Raking Machine Operator
- Potato Picker
- Potato Bucker
- Portable Feed Mill Operator
- Plowman
- Planting Machine Operator
- Planting Machine Crewman
- Planter
- Picker Operator
- Peanut Shaker
- Peanut Picker
- Packing Tractor Machine Operator
- Orange Picker Machine Operator
- Nut Sheller Machine Operator
- Mushroom Growth Media Mixer
- Milking Machine Operator
- Mechanic
- Machine Tender
- Machine Pecan Picker
- Machine Pecan Gatherer
- Machine Operator Transplanter
- Machine Operator Replanter
- Machine Operator Picker
- Machine Operator Hop Worker
- Machine Operator Hop Picker
- Machine Operator Hay Stacker
- Machine Operator Farmworker
- Machine Operator Cane Cutter
- Machine Milker
- Machine Farmworker
- Loader Operator
- Liquid Fertilizer Servicer
- Laborer
- Hay Stacker Operator
- Hay Rake Operator
- Hay Chopper
- Harvester Operator
- Grain Thresher
- Grain Farmworker
- Grain Combiner
- Grain Combine Driver
- Ginning Operator
- Ginner
- Gin Operator
- General Farmworker
- Fruit Thinner, Machine Operator
- Fruit Picker, Machine Operator
- Fruit Loader, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvester, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvest Machine Operator
- Fruit Farmworker
- Field Hauler
- Field Crops Harvest Machine Operator
- Field Crop Farmworker
- Fertilizing Machine Operator
- Fertilizer Applicator
- Farmer
- Farm Worker
- Farm Tractor Operator
- Farm Manager
- Farm Machine Tender
- Farm Equipment Operator
- Equipment Operator Wage Hand
- Diversified Crops Farmworker
- Dairy Machine Operator Farmworker
- Custom Harvester
- Custom Applicator
- Cultivator
- Cotton Stripper
- Cotton Picker Operator
- Cotton Ginner
- Cotton Chopper
- Cotton Baler
- Corn Husker Machine Operator
- Corn Detasseler Machine Operator
- Corn Cutter
- Combine Operator
- Combine Driver
- Chopper Operator
- Cane Piler
- Cane Flume Feeding Machine Operator
- Cane Flume Chute Operator
- Bulbs Farmworker
- Broomcorn Thresher
- Berry Picker Machine Operator
- Bean Picker Machine Operator
- Baler
- Agricultural Plow Operator
- Agricultural Equipment Operator
Tasks for “Lime Spreader”
- Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
- Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
- Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
- Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
- 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.
- Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
- Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
- Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
- Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
- Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
- 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.
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
- Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Related Technology & Tools
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- Litter spreaders
- Bedding hippers
- Header carriers
- Hay bale feeders
- Compact tractors
- Weed wipes
- Min-till drills
- Disk rippers
- Land levelers
- Manure storage tanks
- Coulter disks
- Field cultivators
- Air drill seeders
- Row crop cultivators
- Hay bale spears
- Skid steer loaders
- Silage wrappers
- Windrowers
- Hay bale forks
- Peanut dryers
- Skid steer post drivers
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Crop lifters
- Mower conditioners
- Auger wagons
- Hay tedders
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Forage wagons
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Field rollers
- Tractor guidance systems
- Coulter rippers
- Power winches
- Tandem disks
- Hay balers
- Harrow baskets
- Combine headers
- Pasture renovators
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Air carts
- Land rollers
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Silage feeders
- Auger movers
- Grain drills
- Farm tractors
- Hammermills
- Post hole diggers
- Gravity wagons
- Silage wagons
- Manure separators
- Grain heaters
- Soybean combine harvesters
- Chisel plows
- Hay bale unrollers
- Forage tractors
- Sprayer booms
- Hay bale movers
- Land scrapers
- Batch grain dryers
- Grain augers
- Peanut digger shakers
- Forage boxes
- Skid steer rock grapples
- Coulter drills
- Rotary hay rakes
- Silage baggers
- Backhoes
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- 2-point sprayers
- Nurse tanks
- Combine grain headers
- Forage blowers
- Hay bale compressors
- Manure chopper pumps
- Land finishers
- Crop dividers
- Hay conditioners
- Air reels
- Transfer augers
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- Min-till planters
- Fertilizer blenders
- Hay bale stackers
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Windrow inverters
- Post drivers
- Manure spreaders
- Seed drills
- Hay bale conveyors
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Seed dryers
- Mist blowers
- Tomato harvesters
- Grain combines
- Garlic harvesters
- Combine header transports
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- Flotation sprayers
- Bed shapers
- Utility vehicles
- Track tractors
- Shavings spreaders
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Lime spreaders
- Hay bale wrappers
- Manure scrapers
- Cargo trucks
- Portable sprayers
- Silage boxes
- Ditchers
- Grass seeders
- Bucket elevators
- Seed mixers
- Silage distributors
- Wheel loaders
- Seed hoppers
- Seed bins
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Threshers
- Grain vacuums
- Peanut dump carts
- Feed grinders
- Grain wagons
- Silo spreaders
- Haybines
- Seed strippers
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Crop shredders
- Seed scales
- Hay bale accumulators
- Manure injection systems
- Hay bale trailers
- Seed conveyors
- Chaff spreaders
- Feed conveyors
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- Roller packers
- Silage bins
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Subcompact tractors
- Chisel disks
- Hay bale loaders
- Feed mixer wagons
- Rotary tillers
- Subsoilers
- Skid steer post pullers
- 3-point sprayers
- Min-till cultivators
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Manure augers
- Hay bale elevators
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Seed tenders
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Silage mills
- Peanut digger inverters
- Tower grain dryers
- Rock windrowers
- Stump grinders
- Liquid storage tanks
- Air seeders
- Combine draper headers
- Seed vacuums
- V hay rakes
- Telehandlers
- Compost turners
- Skid sprayers
- Peanut diggers
- Swath turners
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Offset disks
- Hay bale shredders
- Forage harvesters
- Grass drills
- Land planes
- Grain pumps
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Granular applicators
- Plows
- Flat-ended shovels
- Combine cylinders
- Sprayer chassis
- Rotary hoes
- Peanut harvesters
- Forklifts
- Martens Farms Farm Trac
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate