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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 Operator”

Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
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.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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