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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 or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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