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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”

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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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