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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 Tractor Operator”

Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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