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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 “Lime Spreader”

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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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