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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 “Portable Feed Mill Operator”

Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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