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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”.
Also Known As…
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Tractor Operator
- Tractor Driver
- Rake Operator
- Irrigation Worker
- Hay Baler
- Farm Laborer
- Farm Hand
- Equipment Operator
- Cutter Operator
- Baler Operator
- Windrower Operator
- Wheat Combine Driver
- Vegetable Loader Machine Operator
- Vegetable Harvest Machine Operator
- Vegetable Farmworker
- Truck Driver
- Tractor Operator Helper
- Tobacco Primer Machine Operator
- Thresher
- Sugar Cane Planting Equipment Operator
- Sugar Cane Planter Machine Operator
- Straw Baler
- Sprayer
- Seed Potato Arranger
- Rice Farmworker
- Replanting Machine Operator
- Replanting Machine Crewman
- Raking Machine Operator
- Potato Picker
- Potato Bucker
- Portable Feed Mill Operator
- Plowman
- Planting Machine Operator
- Planting Machine Crewman
- Planter
- Picker Operator
- Peanut Shaker
- Peanut Picker
- Orange Picker Machine Operator
- Nut Sheller Machine Operator
- Mushroom Growth Media Mixer
- Milking Machine Operator
- Mechanic
- Machine Tender
- Machine Pecan Picker
- Machine Pecan Gatherer
- Machine Operator Transplanter
- Machine Operator Replanter
- Machine Operator Picker
- Machine Operator Hop Worker
- Machine Operator Hop Picker
- Machine Operator Hay Stacker
- Machine Operator Farmworker
- Machine Operator Cane Cutter
- Machine Milker
- Machine Farmworker
- Loader Operator
- Liquid Fertilizer Servicer
- Lime Spreader
- Laborer
- Hay Stacker Operator
- Hay Rake Operator
- Hay Chopper
- Harvester Operator
- Grain Thresher
- Grain Farmworker
- Grain Combiner
- Grain Combine Driver
- Ginning Operator
- Ginner
- Gin Operator
- General Farmworker
- Fruit Thinner, Machine Operator
- Fruit Picker, Machine Operator
- Fruit Loader, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvester, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvest Machine Operator
- Fruit Farmworker
- Field Hauler
- Field Crops Harvest Machine Operator
- Field Crop Farmworker
- Fertilizing Machine Operator
- Fertilizer Applicator
- Farmer
- Farm Worker
- Farm Tractor Operator
- Farm Manager
- Farm Machine Tender
- Farm Equipment Operator
- Equipment Operator Wage Hand
- Diversified Crops Farmworker
- Dairy Machine Operator Farmworker
- Custom Harvester
- Custom Applicator
- Cultivator
- Cotton Stripper
- Cotton Picker Operator
- Cotton Ginner
- Cotton Chopper
- Cotton Baler
- Corn Husker Machine Operator
- Corn Detasseler Machine Operator
- Corn Cutter
- Combine Operator
- Combine Driver
- Chopper Operator
- Cane Piler
- Cane Flume Feeding Machine Operator
- Cane Flume Chute Operator
- Bulbs Farmworker
- Broomcorn Thresher
- Berry Picker Machine Operator
- Bean Picker Machine Operator
- Baler
- Agricultural Plow Operator
- Agricultural Equipment Operator
Tasks for “Packing Tractor Machine Operator”
- Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
- 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.
- Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
- 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.
- 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.
- Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
- Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
- Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
- Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
- Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
- 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.
- Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Related Technology & Tools
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- Auger wagons
- Min-till drills
- Seed mixers
- Tractor guidance systems
- Sprayer chassis
- Subsoilers
- Silage wagons
- Peanut diggers
- Sprayer booms
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Telehandlers
- V hay rakes
- Crop dividers
- Peanut dump carts
- Silage baggers
- Skid steer rock grapples
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Feed grinders
- Grain heaters
- Mower conditioners
- Forage wagons
- Land levelers
- Hay bale wrappers
- Soybean combine harvesters
- 3-point sprayers
- Hammermills
- Peanut dryers
- Post hole diggers
- Swath turners
- Gravity wagons
- Nurse tanks
- Hay bale unrollers
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Hay bale forks
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Rotary hoes
- Compost turners
- Lime spreaders
- Backhoes
- Ditchers
- Land rollers
- Transfer augers
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Manure scrapers
- 2-point sprayers
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Litter spreaders
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- Batch grain dryers
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Combine headers
- Fertilizer blenders
- Grass drills
- Hay bale movers
- Grain augers
- Seed bins
- Row crop cultivators
- Haybines
- Seed vacuums
- Tower grain dryers
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Tomato harvesters
- Harrow baskets
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Compact tractors
- Chisel plows
- Combine header transports
- Silage bins
- Wheel loaders
- Threshers
- Disk rippers
- Field cultivators
- Field rollers
- Shavings spreaders
- Skid steer post drivers
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Skid sprayers
- Grain vacuums
- Utility vehicles
- Air carts
- Bucket elevators
- Rock windrowers
- Coulter rippers
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Land finishers
- Hay tedders
- Rotary hay rakes
- Forage tractors
- Stump grinders
- Silo spreaders
- Seed tenders
- Feed conveyors
- Land planes
- Grain wagons
- Forklifts
- Plows
- Min-till cultivators
- Track tractors
- Hay conditioners
- Grain pumps
- Weed wipes
- Crop lifters
- Skid steer loaders
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Pasture renovators
- Silage mills
- Air reels
- Combine grain headers
- Offset disks
- Roller packers
- Peanut harvesters
- Hay bale loaders
- Manure injection systems
- Peanut digger inverters
- Seed scales
- Silage feeders
- Bed shapers
- Hay bale conveyors
- Hay bale accumulators
- Post drivers
- Air seeders
- Seed drills
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Forage harvesters
- Seed strippers
- Silage boxes
- Cargo trucks
- Subcompact tractors
- Hay bale compressors
- Bedding hippers
- Coulter disks
- Seed conveyors
- Hay bale feeders
- Coulter drills
- Chaff spreaders
- Windrow inverters
- Feed mixer wagons
- Forage blowers
- Flotation sprayers
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Mist blowers
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Combine cylinders
- Hay bale spears
- Min-till planters
- Manure storage tanks
- Windrowers
- Hay bale stackers
- Grass seeders
- Silage distributors
- Skid steer post pullers
- Hay balers
- Seed hoppers
- Liquid storage tanks
- Header carriers
- Tandem disks
- Manure spreaders
- Land scrapers
- Portable sprayers
- Grain combines
- Rotary tillers
- Manure augers
- Flat-ended shovels
- Farm tractors
- Manure separators
- Air drill seeders
- Hay bale elevators
- Auger movers
- Crop shredders
- Peanut digger shakers
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Chisel disks
- Forage boxes
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Manure chopper pumps
- Silage wrappers
- Power winches
- Seed dryers
- Granular applicators
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- Combine draper headers
- Hay bale shredders
- Hay bale trailers
- Grain drills
- Garlic harvesters
- Martens Farms Farm Trac
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate