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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
- Peanut Shaker
- Peanut Picker
- Packing Tractor Machine Operator
- 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 “Picker Operator”
- 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.
- Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
- Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
- Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
- 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.
- Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
- Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
- Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
- Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
- Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
- Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
- Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Related Technology & Tools
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Skid steer loaders
- Chisel disks
- Seed bins
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Hay balers
- Chisel plows
- Rotary hoes
- Feed conveyors
- Hay bale unrollers
- Auger movers
- Manure augers
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Silage bins
- Swath turners
- Combine grain headers
- Peanut dryers
- Power winches
- Manure separators
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Silage baggers
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Flat-ended shovels
- Mower conditioners
- Utility vehicles
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Grass drills
- Manure spreaders
- Air reels
- Garlic harvesters
- Hay bale loaders
- Harrow baskets
- Track tractors
- Roller packers
- Windrowers
- Windrow inverters
- Silage wagons
- Hay bale accumulators
- Combine header transports
- Tractor guidance systems
- Nurse tanks
- Granular applicators
- Min-till cultivators
- Offset disks
- Peanut harvesters
- Farm tractors
- Silage boxes
- Air seeders
- Seed tenders
- Soybean combine harvesters
- Tandem disks
- Silage mills
- Coulter rippers
- Grain vacuums
- Rotary tillers
- Min-till drills
- Peanut dump carts
- Ditchers
- Combine cylinders
- Bedding hippers
- Seed hoppers
- Grain augers
- Manure injection systems
- Row crop cultivators
- Peanut digger inverters
- Land scrapers
- Transfer augers
- Feed mixer wagons
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Gravity wagons
- Liquid storage tanks
- Field cultivators
- Lime spreaders
- Land finishers
- Backhoes
- Shavings spreaders
- Seed scales
- Field rollers
- Threshers
- Tomato harvesters
- Coulter disks
- Crop lifters
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Compact tractors
- Disk rippers
- Crop dividers
- Hay bale feeders
- Subcompact tractors
- 3-point sprayers
- Min-till planters
- Grain wagons
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Hay bale elevators
- Grain heaters
- Manure scrapers
- Haybines
- Combine headers
- Peanut digger shakers
- Air carts
- Flotation sprayers
- Silage distributors
- Wheel loaders
- Stump grinders
- Forage boxes
- Hay tedders
- Skid steer post drivers
- Silage feeders
- Hay bale compressors
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- Hay bale wrappers
- Hay bale shredders
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Fertilizer blenders
- Cargo trucks
- Skid steer post pullers
- Forklifts
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- Post hole diggers
- Hammermills
- Feed grinders
- Land rollers
- Forage tractors
- Combine draper headers
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Sprayer chassis
- Chaff spreaders
- Subsoilers
- Forage wagons
- Skid sprayers
- Forage blowers
- Post drivers
- Rotary hay rakes
- Grass seeders
- Batch grain dryers
- Litter spreaders
- Coulter drills
- Manure chopper pumps
- Mist blowers
- V hay rakes
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Peanut diggers
- Grain drills
- Hay bale movers
- Seed strippers
- Seed conveyors
- Seed mixers
- Grain combines
- Telehandlers
- Hay bale conveyors
- Forage harvesters
- Skid steer rock grapples
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Grain pumps
- Rock windrowers
- Crop shredders
- Header carriers
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Sprayer booms
- Auger wagons
- Silage wrappers
- Hay bale forks
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- Pasture renovators
- Land planes
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Hay bale stackers
- Air drill seeders
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- 2-point sprayers
- Land levelers
- Hay bale spears
- Silo spreaders
- Manure storage tanks
- Hay conditioners
- Seed dryers
- Hay bale trailers
- Bed shapers
- Plows
- Tower grain dryers
- Seed vacuums
- Seed drills
- Compost turners
- Bucket elevators
- Weed wipes
- Portable sprayers
- Martens Farms Farm Trac
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager