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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 “Tobacco Primer Machine Operator”

Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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