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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”

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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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