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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”

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.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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