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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 “Milking Machine Operator”

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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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