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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
- Farm Laborer
- Farm Hand
- Equipment Operator
- Cutter Operator
- Baler Operator
- Windrower Operator
- Wheat Combine Driver
- Vegetable Loader Machine Operator
- Vegetable Harvest Machine Operator
- Vegetable Farmworker
- 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
- Hay Baler
- 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 “Hay Baler”
- Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
- Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
- Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
- Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- 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.
- Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
- Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
- Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
- Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Related Technology & Tools
- Air reels
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Stump grinders
- Manure injection systems
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Combine header transports
- Forklifts
- Sprayer chassis
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- Soybean combine harvesters
- Hay conditioners
- Tandem disks
- Windrowers
- Coulter rippers
- Air carts
- Crop dividers
- Forage blowers
- Grain heaters
- Roller packers
- Silage mills
- Row crop cultivators
- Post hole diggers
- Hay bale movers
- Grain wagons
- Backhoes
- Combine cylinders
- Coulter drills
- Swath turners
- Hay bale shredders
- Rotary hay rakes
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Ditchers
- Harrow baskets
- Weed wipes
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Litter spreaders
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Seed drills
- Crop lifters
- Hay bale elevators
- Bedding hippers
- Forage boxes
- Plows
- Lime spreaders
- Shavings spreaders
- Farm tractors
- Fertilizer blenders
- Seed bins
- Silage wagons
- Flat-ended shovels
- Land scrapers
- Manure separators
- Seed strippers
- Windrow inverters
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Feed grinders
- Feed conveyors
- Air seeders
- Grain pumps
- Chisel disks
- Silage boxes
- Flotation sprayers
- Transfer augers
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Rock windrowers
- Power winches
- Hay balers
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Manure augers
- Min-till planters
- Liquid storage tanks
- Granular applicators
- Grain augers
- Grain vacuums
- Combine draper headers
- 2-point sprayers
- Seed conveyors
- Grass seeders
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Hay bale stackers
- Sprayer booms
- Hay bale trailers
- Peanut dump carts
- Air drill seeders
- Hay tedders
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Auger wagons
- Utility vehicles
- Crop shredders
- Cargo trucks
- Grass drills
- Silage distributors
- Peanut diggers
- Compost turners
- Tractor guidance systems
- Haybines
- Manure scrapers
- Wheel loaders
- Seed dryers
- Field cultivators
- Feed mixer wagons
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Mist blowers
- Silo spreaders
- Post drivers
- Coulter disks
- Threshers
- Offset disks
- Seed vacuums
- Skid sprayers
- Manure storage tanks
- Rotary tillers
- Field rollers
- Min-till cultivators
- Manure spreaders
- Mower conditioners
- Hay bale feeders
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Skid steer post pullers
- Peanut digger shakers
- Telehandlers
- Hay bale compressors
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Hay bale wrappers
- Hay bale forks
- Nurse tanks
- Silage feeders
- Track tractors
- Tower grain dryers
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Hay bale accumulators
- V hay rakes
- Seed scales
- Land finishers
- Land levelers
- Silage wrappers
- Tomato harvesters
- Seed mixers
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- Bucket elevators
- Forage wagons
- Chisel plows
- Subcompact tractors
- Hay bale loaders
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Forage harvesters
- Hay bale unrollers
- Land rollers
- Compact tractors
- Hay bale conveyors
- Grain combines
- Grain drills
- 3-point sprayers
- Hay bale spears
- Min-till drills
- Combine grain headers
- Subsoilers
- Peanut digger inverters
- Seed hoppers
- Silage baggers
- Batch grain dryers
- Peanut dryers
- Manure chopper pumps
- Hammermills
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- Chaff spreaders
- Forage tractors
- Gravity wagons
- Peanut harvesters
- Combine headers
- Seed tenders
- Header carriers
- Skid steer loaders
- Portable sprayers
- Skid steer rock grapples
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- Auger movers
- Silage bins
- Land planes
- Pasture renovators
- Rotary hoes
- Bed shapers
- Skid steer post drivers
- Garlic harvesters
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- Disk rippers
- Martens Farms Farm Trac
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate
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