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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
- Picker Operator
- 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 “Planter”
- Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
- Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
- Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- 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.
- Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
- 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.
- 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.
- Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
- 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.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Threshers
- 3-point sprayers
- Crop dividers
- Rotary hoes
- Land levelers
- Combine headers
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Haybines
- Land planes
- Portable sprayers
- Gravity wagons
- Air reels
- Combine grain headers
- Compost turners
- Peanut dump carts
- Peanut dryers
- Farm tractors
- Chaff spreaders
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Track tractors
- Post drivers
- Rotary tillers
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- Forage wagons
- Fertilizer blenders
- Skid steer post drivers
- Combine cylinders
- Pasture renovators
- Manure spreaders
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- Lime spreaders
- Offset disks
- Silage wagons
- Min-till cultivators
- Peanut harvesters
- Grain wagons
- Land finishers
- Hay bale accumulators
- Disk rippers
- Grain heaters
- Sprayer booms
- Stump grinders
- Nurse tanks
- Grain drills
- Hay bale movers
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Hay bale unrollers
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Seed strippers
- Bucket elevators
- Mist blowers
- Power winches
- Garlic harvesters
- Grass drills
- Auger movers
- Ditchers
- Rock windrowers
- Hay bale shredders
- Tower grain dryers
- Hay bale feeders
- Field rollers
- Crop shredders
- Forage boxes
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Auger wagons
- Silage bins
- Silage mills
- Hay bale stackers
- Seed conveyors
- Utility vehicles
- Air drill seeders
- Flotation sprayers
- Feed conveyors
- Wheel loaders
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- Chisel plows
- Min-till drills
- Silage distributors
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Skid sprayers
- Backhoes
- Hay bale loaders
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Field cultivators
- Grass seeders
- Manure injection systems
- Roller packers
- Hay tedders
- Silage boxes
- Windrow inverters
- Coulter rippers
- Tractor guidance systems
- Row crop cultivators
- Skid steer rock grapples
- Coulter drills
- Shavings spreaders
- Skid steer loaders
- Hay bale compressors
- Silo spreaders
- Header carriers
- Seed bins
- Swath turners
- Plows
- Transfer augers
- Peanut digger inverters
- Chisel disks
- Hay bale trailers
- Harrow baskets
- Hay bale forks
- Seed scales
- Air carts
- Flat-ended shovels
- Compact tractors
- Soybean combine harvesters
- Air seeders
- Cargo trucks
- Seed hoppers
- Seed vacuums
- Hammermills
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Crop lifters
- Mower conditioners
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Tomato harvesters
- Sprayer chassis
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Combine header transports
- Seed drills
- Litter spreaders
- Skid steer post pullers
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Land rollers
- Manure chopper pumps
- Liquid storage tanks
- Seed tenders
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Forklifts
- Hay bale spears
- Rotary hay rakes
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Tandem disks
- Land scrapers
- Windrowers
- Subsoilers
- Seed dryers
- Manure augers
- Combine draper headers
- Hay bale wrappers
- Weed wipes
- Manure storage tanks
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Manure separators
- Min-till planters
- Grain augers
- Peanut digger shakers
- Bed shapers
- Bedding hippers
- Silage feeders
- Grain pumps
- Coulter disks
- Subcompact tractors
- Silage wrappers
- Hay balers
- Hay bale elevators
- Batch grain dryers
- Forage harvesters
- Forage tractors
- Post hole diggers
- V hay rakes
- Forage blowers
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- Hay conditioners
- Silage baggers
- Peanut diggers
- Seed mixers
- Granular applicators
- Hay bale conveyors
- Telehandlers
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- Manure scrapers
- 2-point sprayers
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Grain combines
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Feed grinders
- Grain vacuums
- Feed mixer wagons
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Martens Farms Farm Trac
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager