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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”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

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Liquid ferilizer applicators
Grain heaters
Tandem disks
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Manure augers
Backhoes
Nurse tanks
Horizontal feed mixers
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Grain combines
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Grain pumps
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Grain vacuums
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Liquid storage tanks
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Grain augers
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Forage blowers
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Seed vacuums
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Sprayer chassis
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Flat-ended shovels
Manure injection systems
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Grain bin aeration fans
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Hay tedders
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Seed hoppers
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Fertilizer blenders
Hammermills
Hay bale stackers
Haybines
Litter spreaders
Hay bale unrollers
Auger movers
Rotary hoes
Compost turners
Hay bale accumulators
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Harrow baskets
Self-propelled sprayers
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Combine header transports
Seed mixers
Granular applicators
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Tractor guidance systems
Silage mills
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Chaff spreaders
Seed drills
Skid steer post hole diggers
Forklifts
Forage tractors
Power winches
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Gravity wagons
Peanut digger shakers
Silo spreaders
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Fertilizer spreaders
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