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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 Transplanter”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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