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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”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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