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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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