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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”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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