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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 “Loader Operator”

Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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