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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 “Planting Machine Crewman”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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