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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

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Tasks for “Agricultural Equipment Operators”

Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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