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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”

Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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Backhoes
Granular applicators
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Fertilizer spreaders
Seed scales
Feed conveyors
Grass drills
Sprayer booms
Crop dividers
Seed mixers
Hay bale accumulators
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Seed vacuums
Flat-ended shovels
Cargo trucks
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Grain bin aeration fans
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Hay balers
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Bed shapers
Forage blowers
Liquid ferilizer applicators
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Skid steer loaders
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Combine grain headers
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Mower conditioners
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Air reels
Dry bulk storage tanks
Windrowers
Manure augers
Plows
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Rotary hoes
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Fertilizer blenders
Auger wagons
Litter spreaders
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Liquid storage tanks
Sprayer chassis
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Skid steer hay bale spears
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Seed drills
Combine header transports
Coulter rippers
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Portable sprayers
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3-point sprayers
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Straw and chaff spreaders
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Post drivers
V hay rakes
Grain vacuums
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Combine headers
Forage boxes
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Manure scrapers
Bucket elevators
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Hay bale loaders
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Lime spreaders
Silage feeders
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Grain augers
Seed dryers
Land levelers
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Hay bale forks
Haybines
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Power winches
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Hay conditioners
Skid steer post pullers
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Post hole diggers
Coulter disks
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Peanut dryers
Hay bale shredders
Tandem disks
Transfer augers
Weed wipes
Silage distributors
Bedding hippers
Forage tractors
Chaff spreaders
Land finishers
Flotation sprayers
Feed grinders
Skid steer post drivers
Forklifts
Skid steer rock grapples
Seed strippers
Combine cylinders
Crop lifters
Hammermills
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Min-till drills
Hay bale spears
Garlic harvesters
Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
Mist blowers
Ditchers
Silage mills
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Hay tedders
Grain pumps
Seed conveyors
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Air seeders
Hay bale wrappers
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Hay bale compressors
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