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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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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