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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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