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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”

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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery 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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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