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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”

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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.

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