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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

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Agricultural Equipment Operators”.

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Tasks for “Custom Applicator”

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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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