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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”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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