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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 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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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