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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 “Equipment Operator”

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.
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.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

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Weed wipes
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Hay bale loaders
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All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
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Hay bale spears
Grass seeders
2-point sprayers
Seed bins
All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
Land rollers
Hay bale elevators
Seed vacuums
Liquid storage tanks
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Chaff spreaders
Coulter disks
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Peanut harvesters
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