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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 “Machine Operator Cane Cutter”

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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.

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Ditchers
Dry bulk storage tanks
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Seed strippers
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Hay bale unrollers
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Seed scales
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Manure scrapers
Pasture renovators
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Silage mills
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Haybines
Silage baggers
Power winches
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Hay bale conveyors
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Portable sprayers
Peanut digger inverters
Feed grinders
Fertilizer blenders
Land planes
Silage wrappers
Rotary hay rakes
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Swath turners
Land rollers
Seed tenders
Lime spreaders
Post drivers
Wheel loaders
3-point sprayers
Grain drills
Straw and chaff spreaders
Chaff spreaders
Forage tractors
Hay bale spears
Shavings spreaders
Self-propelled sprayers
Flotation sprayers
Liquid storage tanks
Post hole diggers
Hay bale wrappers
Seed bins
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Seed vacuums
Coulter drills
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