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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”.
Also Known As…
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Tractor Operator
- Tractor Driver
- Rake Operator
- Irrigation Worker
- Hay Baler
- Farm Laborer
- Farm Hand
- Equipment Operator
- Cutter Operator
- Baler Operator
- Windrower Operator
- Wheat Combine Driver
- Vegetable Loader Machine Operator
- Vegetable Harvest Machine Operator
- Truck Driver
- Tractor Operator Helper
- Tobacco Primer Machine Operator
- Thresher
- Sugar Cane Planting Equipment Operator
- Sugar Cane Planter Machine Operator
- Straw Baler
- Sprayer
- Seed Potato Arranger
- Rice Farmworker
- Replanting Machine Operator
- Replanting Machine Crewman
- Raking Machine Operator
- Potato Picker
- Potato Bucker
- Portable Feed Mill Operator
- Plowman
- Planting Machine Operator
- Planting Machine Crewman
- Planter
- Picker Operator
- Peanut Shaker
- Peanut Picker
- Packing Tractor Machine Operator
- Orange Picker Machine Operator
- Nut Sheller Machine Operator
- Mushroom Growth Media Mixer
- Milking Machine Operator
- Mechanic
- Machine Tender
- Machine Pecan Picker
- Machine Pecan Gatherer
- Machine Operator Transplanter
- Machine Operator Replanter
- Machine Operator Picker
- Machine Operator Hop Worker
- Machine Operator Hop Picker
- Machine Operator Hay Stacker
- Machine Operator Farmworker
- Machine Operator Cane Cutter
- Machine Milker
- Machine Farmworker
- Loader Operator
- Liquid Fertilizer Servicer
- Lime Spreader
- Laborer
- Hay Stacker Operator
- Hay Rake Operator
- Hay Chopper
- Harvester Operator
- Grain Thresher
- Grain Farmworker
- Grain Combiner
- Grain Combine Driver
- Ginning Operator
- Ginner
- Gin Operator
- General Farmworker
- Fruit Thinner, Machine Operator
- Fruit Picker, Machine Operator
- Fruit Loader, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvester, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvest Machine Operator
- Fruit Farmworker
- Field Hauler
- Field Crops Harvest Machine Operator
- Field Crop Farmworker
- Fertilizing Machine Operator
- Fertilizer Applicator
- Farmer
- Farm Worker
- Farm Tractor Operator
- Farm Manager
- Farm Machine Tender
- Farm Equipment Operator
- Equipment Operator Wage Hand
- Diversified Crops Farmworker
- Dairy Machine Operator Farmworker
- Custom Harvester
- Custom Applicator
- Cultivator
- Cotton Stripper
- Cotton Picker Operator
- Cotton Ginner
- Cotton Chopper
- Cotton Baler
- Corn Husker Machine Operator
- Corn Detasseler Machine Operator
- Corn Cutter
- Combine Operator
- Combine Driver
- Chopper Operator
- Cane Piler
- Cane Flume Feeding Machine Operator
- Cane Flume Chute Operator
- Bulbs Farmworker
- Broomcorn Thresher
- Berry Picker Machine Operator
- Bean Picker Machine Operator
- Baler
- Agricultural Plow Operator
- Agricultural Equipment Operator
Tasks for “Vegetable Farmworker”
- Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
- Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
- Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
- 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.
- Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
- Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
- Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
- Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
- Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
- Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
- Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
- Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
- Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Related Technology & Tools
- Skid steer loaders
- Hay bale feeders
- Peanut digger shakers
- Skid steer post pullers
- Disk rippers
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Gravity wagons
- 3-point sprayers
- Manure spreaders
- Tractor guidance systems
- Plows
- Forage harvesters
- Land levelers
- Bucket elevators
- Seed tenders
- Peanut digger inverters
- Grain drills
- Mist blowers
- Shavings spreaders
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- Header carriers
- Roller packers
- Hay bale accumulators
- Chisel plows
- Utility vehicles
- V hay rakes
- Backhoes
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Subsoilers
- Hay tedders
- Grass drills
- Power winches
- Silage feeders
- Combine cylinders
- Weed wipes
- Coulter drills
- Hay conditioners
- Field rollers
- Grain wagons
- Silage boxes
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Manure chopper pumps
- Seed scales
- Hay bale trailers
- Granular applicators
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Tandem disks
- Farm tractors
- Forage wagons
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Telehandlers
- Sprayer booms
- Feed grinders
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Hay bale forks
- Hay bale shredders
- Sprayer chassis
- Combine header transports
- Cargo trucks
- Air drill seeders
- Hay bale compressors
- Litter spreaders
- Land rollers
- 2-point sprayers
- Seed bins
- Hay bale wrappers
- Row crop cultivators
- Min-till cultivators
- Feed mixer wagons
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Portable sprayers
- Grass seeders
- Coulter rippers
- Silage baggers
- Lime spreaders
- Threshers
- Flat-ended shovels
- Air carts
- Liquid storage tanks
- Seed strippers
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Transfer augers
- Peanut harvesters
- Skid steer rock grapples
- Coulter disks
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- Hay bale movers
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Skid steer post drivers
- Hay bale conveyors
- Seed conveyors
- Silage mills
- Ditchers
- Combine draper headers
- Hay bale stackers
- Crop lifters
- Mower conditioners
- Bed shapers
- Tower grain dryers
- Combine grain headers
- Land planes
- Windrow inverters
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- Auger movers
- Hay bale unrollers
- Seed hoppers
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- Seed mixers
- Compost turners
- Harrow baskets
- Hay bale elevators
- Rotary hay rakes
- Post drivers
- Silage wagons
- Manure scrapers
- Skid sprayers
- Chaff spreaders
- Air reels
- Fertilizer blenders
- Flotation sprayers
- Forage boxes
- Land scrapers
- Grain combines
- Combine headers
- Haybines
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- Manure storage tanks
- Silage distributors
- Auger wagons
- Crop dividers
- Nurse tanks
- Silo spreaders
- Peanut dryers
- Crop shredders
- Seed drills
- Silage bins
- Compact tractors
- Forklifts
- Soybean combine harvesters
- Swath turners
- Rock windrowers
- Stump grinders
- Grain vacuums
- Field cultivators
- Tomato harvesters
- Chisel disks
- Forage blowers
- Min-till planters
- Hay balers
- Grain augers
- Offset disks
- Air seeders
- Garlic harvesters
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Wheel loaders
- Seed dryers
- Grain pumps
- Manure separators
- Peanut dump carts
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Manure injection systems
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Rotary tillers
- Peanut diggers
- Silage wrappers
- Grain heaters
- Hay bale spears
- Manure augers
- Track tractors
- Rotary hoes
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Post hole diggers
- Forage tractors
- Windrowers
- Seed vacuums
- Hammermills
- Land finishers
- Pasture renovators
- Min-till drills
- Hay bale loaders
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Bedding hippers
- Feed conveyors
- Subcompact tractors
- Batch grain dryers
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager
- Martens Farms Farm Trac