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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 “Farm Equipment Operator”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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