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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 Operator”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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