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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 “Packing Tractor Machine Operator”

Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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