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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 “Truck Driver”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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