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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”

Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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