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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…

Tasks for “Planter”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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