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