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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 “Sugar Cane Planter Machine Operator”

Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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 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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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