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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”

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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