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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”

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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