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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 “Plowman”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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