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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 Machine Tender”

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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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