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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 “Equipment Operator”

Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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