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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”

Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

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Bed shapers
Dry bulk storage tanks
Combine draper headers
Gravity wagons
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Grain heaters
Tandem disks
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Manure separators
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Land planes
Stump grinders
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Weed wipes
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Cargo trucks
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Air seeders
Hay bale accumulators
Hay balers
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Litter spreaders
Chisel disks
Batch grain dryers
Grain combines
Manure storage tanks
Backhoes
Post drivers
Field rollers
Silage mills
Header carriers
Rock windrowers
Skid steer loaders
Lime spreaders
Grain drills
Crop lifters
Seed scales
Self-propelled sprayers
Hay bale unrollers
Crop shredders
Seed dryers
Row crop cultivators
Bedding hippers
Skid sprayers
Hay bale forks
Hay bale conveyors
Nurse tanks
Forage tractors
Compost turners
Seed tenders
Offset disks
Roller packers
Forage harvesters
Forage blowers
Min-till planters
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Windrow inverters
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Rotary hoes
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Fertilizer spreaders
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Flat-ended shovels
Seed mixers
Grass seeders
Silage distributors
Land levelers
Peanut harvesters
Hay bale shredders
Hay bale movers
Crop dividers
Air reels
Land finishers
Silo spreaders
Track tractors
Grass drills
Farm tractors
Haybines
Mower conditioners
Peanut digger shakers
Disk rippers
Coulter drills
Combine headers
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Combine header transports
Land rollers
Fertilizer blenders
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Silage feeders
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Telehandlers
Grain augers
Wheel loaders
Plows
Combine cylinders
Land scrapers
Granular applicators
Skid steer hay bale spears
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Skid steer post drivers
Seed drills
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Forage boxes
Shavings spreaders
Skid steer tree cutters
Tomato harvesters
Grain bin aeration fans
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Auger wagons
Hay bale trailers
Feed grinders
Silage wrappers
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Manure injection systems
Hay bale compressors
Harrow baskets
Flotation sprayers
Peanut dryers
Manure augers
Mist blowers
Portable sprayers
Threshers
Compact tractors
Hay bale spears
V hay rakes
Rotary tillers
Seed conveyors
Rotary hay rakes
Ditchers
Peanut digger inverters
Combine grain headers
Forklifts
Silage bins
3-point sprayers
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