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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 Planting Equipment Operator”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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