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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 “Planter”

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.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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