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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”

Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer 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.

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Hay conditioners
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Rotary hoes
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Crop shredders
Manure scrapers
Manure injection systems
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Grain pumps
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Liquid storage tanks
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Grass seeders
Hay bale feeders
Forage boxes
Horizontal feed mixers
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Grain bin aeration fans
Straw and chaff spreaders
Manure storage tanks
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Silo spreaders
Grain drills
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V hay rakes
Plows
Garlic harvesters
Seed hoppers
Rotary hay rakes
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Hay bale elevators
Silage distributors
Weed wipes
Skid steer rotary tillers
Tractor guidance systems
Mist blowers
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Grain wagons
Grain augers
Hay bale forks
Seed tenders
Min-till drills
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Forage tractors
Feed conveyors
Hay bale movers
Land finishers
Seed scales
Air reels
Wheel loaders
Peanut digger shakers
Fertilizer spreaders
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Fertilizer blenders
Hay bale trailers
Coulter drills
Silage feeders
Flotation sprayers
Air carts
Haybines
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Bucket elevators
Hay bale conveyors
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Hay bale compressors
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Seed vacuums
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Land planes
Cargo trucks
Silage baggers
Silage wrappers
Manure separators
Bedding hippers
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Ditchers
Bed shapers
Hay bale wrappers
Hay bale shredders
Combine cylinders
Combine headers
Peanut diggers
Seed bins
Manure augers
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Hay bale accumulators
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Seed drills
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Forage harvesters
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Shavings spreaders
Disk rippers
Air seeders
Crop lifters
Hammermills
Transfer augers
Post hole diggers
Hay balers
Sprayer chassis
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
Pasture renovators
Seed mixers
Dry bulk storage tanks
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
Peanut dryers
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Seed dryers
Coulter disks
Chaff spreaders
Min-till planters
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Harrow baskets
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Coulter rippers
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