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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 “Tractor Driver”

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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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