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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”

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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment 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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

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Land planes
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Granular applicators
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Seed mixers
Land scrapers
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All terrain vehicle ATV discs
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Peanut dump carts
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Land levelers
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Liquid ferilizer applicators
Peanut digger shakers
Seed scales
Crop shredders
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Combine draper headers
Hay bale forks
Rotary hoes
Hay bale loaders
Offset disks
Forklifts
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Power winches
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Skid steer hay bale spears
Subsoilers
Silage mills
Combine cylinders
Post hole diggers
Coulter drills
Hay bale wrappers
Hay bale elevators
Air carts
Horizontal feed mixers
Skid steer post drivers
Grain vacuums
Ditchers
Row crop cultivators
Seed drills
Compost turners
Forage boxes
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
Forage blowers
Garlic harvesters
Field rollers
Bucket elevators
Coulter rippers
Manure augers
Skid steer rotary tillers
Combine grain headers
Silage distributors
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Silo spreaders
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