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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”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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