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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”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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 or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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