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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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