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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”

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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