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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”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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