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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”

Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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