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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”

Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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