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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 “Tractor Driver”

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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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