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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”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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