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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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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