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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”

Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Related Technology & Tools

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