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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”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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