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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

Also Known As…

Tasks for “Agricultural Equipment Operators”

Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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