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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”.
Also Known As…
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Tractor Operator
- Tractor Driver
- Rake Operator
- Irrigation Worker
- Hay Baler
- Farm Laborer
- Farm Hand
- Equipment Operator
- Cutter Operator
- Baler Operator
- Windrower Operator
- Wheat Combine Driver
- Vegetable Loader Machine Operator
- Vegetable Harvest Machine Operator
- Vegetable Farmworker
- Truck Driver
- Tractor Operator Helper
- Tobacco Primer Machine Operator
- Thresher
- Sugar Cane Planting Equipment Operator
- Sugar Cane Planter Machine Operator
- Straw Baler
- Sprayer
- Seed Potato Arranger
- Rice Farmworker
- Replanting Machine Operator
- Replanting Machine Crewman
- Raking Machine Operator
- Potato Picker
- Potato Bucker
- Portable Feed Mill Operator
- Plowman
- Planting Machine Operator
- Planting Machine Crewman
- Planter
- Picker Operator
- Peanut Shaker
- Peanut Picker
- Packing Tractor Machine Operator
- Orange Picker Machine Operator
- Nut Sheller Machine Operator
- Mushroom Growth Media Mixer
- Milking Machine Operator
- Mechanic
- Machine Tender
- Machine Pecan Picker
- Machine Pecan Gatherer
- Machine Operator Transplanter
- Machine Operator Replanter
- Machine Operator Picker
- Machine Operator Hop Worker
- Machine Operator Hop Picker
- Machine Operator Hay Stacker
- Machine Operator Farmworker
- Machine Operator Cane Cutter
- Machine Milker
- Machine Farmworker
- Loader Operator
- Liquid Fertilizer Servicer
- Lime Spreader
- Laborer
- Hay Stacker Operator
- Hay Rake Operator
- Hay Chopper
- Harvester Operator
- Grain Thresher
- Grain Farmworker
- Grain Combiner
- Grain Combine Driver
- Ginning Operator
- Ginner
- General Farmworker
- Fruit Thinner, Machine Operator
- Fruit Picker, Machine Operator
- Fruit Loader, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvester, Machine Operator
- Fruit Harvest Machine Operator
- Fruit Farmworker
- Field Hauler
- Field Crops Harvest Machine Operator
- Field Crop Farmworker
- Fertilizing Machine Operator
- Fertilizer Applicator
- Farmer
- Farm Worker
- Farm Tractor Operator
- Farm Manager
- Farm Machine Tender
- Farm Equipment Operator
- Equipment Operator Wage Hand
- Diversified Crops Farmworker
- Dairy Machine Operator Farmworker
- Custom Harvester
- Custom Applicator
- Cultivator
- Cotton Stripper
- Cotton Picker Operator
- Cotton Ginner
- Cotton Chopper
- Cotton Baler
- Corn Husker Machine Operator
- Corn Detasseler Machine Operator
- Corn Cutter
- Combine Operator
- Combine Driver
- Chopper Operator
- Cane Piler
- Cane Flume Feeding Machine Operator
- Cane Flume Chute Operator
- Bulbs Farmworker
- Broomcorn Thresher
- Berry Picker Machine Operator
- Bean Picker Machine Operator
- Baler
- Agricultural Plow Operator
- Agricultural Equipment Operator
Tasks for “Gin Operator”
- Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
- Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
- Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
- Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
- 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.
- Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
- 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.
- 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.
- Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
- Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
- Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
- 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.
- Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Related Technology & Tools
- Peanut digger shakers
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Skid steer loaders
- Air seeders
- Hammermills
- Nurse tanks
- Peanut harvesters
- Chisel disks
- Land rollers
- Combine headers
- Tomato harvesters
- Air carts
- Coulter drills
- Field cultivators
- 3-point sprayers
- Garlic harvesters
- Hay bale spears
- Hay bale accumulators
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Hay bale conveyors
- Coulter rippers
- Crop lifters
- Hay bale trailers
- Chisel plows
- Grain combines
- Feed grinders
- Subcompact tractors
- Silage bins
- Field rollers
- Seed scales
- Combine header transports
- Track tractors
- Silage distributors
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Combine draper headers
- Skid steer post drivers
- Land scrapers
- Skid steer rock grapples
- Windrowers
- Grass drills
- Lime spreaders
- Rotary hay rakes
- Peanut dryers
- Litter spreaders
- Manure injection systems
- Utility vehicles
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Hay bale compressors
- Min-till drills
- Cargo trucks
- Compact tractors
- Hay bale forks
- Soybean combine harvesters
- Threshers
- Bed shapers
- Pasture renovators
- Feed mixer wagons
- Weed wipes
- Sprayer chassis
- Hay bale elevators
- Fertilizer spreaders
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- Coulter disks
- Haybines
- Disk rippers
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Min-till cultivators
- Harrow baskets
- Land finishers
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Roller packers
- Mower conditioners
- Hay bale shredders
- Fertilizer blenders
- Peanut dump carts
- Forage harvesters
- 2-point sprayers
- Rock windrowers
- Seed bins
- Manure storage tanks
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Combine cylinders
- Rotary tillers
- Land planes
- Hay bale movers
- Skid sprayers
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Seed tenders
- Peanut diggers
- Silage wrappers
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- Hay bale unrollers
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Grain augers
- Grain drills
- Silage wagons
- Portable sprayers
- Seed conveyors
- Telehandlers
- Forklifts
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Auger wagons
- Header carriers
- Hay tedders
- Crop shredders
- Compost turners
- Seed strippers
- Batch grain dryers
- Forage tractors
- Post hole diggers
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Manure spreaders
- Grain wagons
- Manure separators
- V hay rakes
- Row crop cultivators
- Offset disks
- Hay bale loaders
- Farm tractors
- Grass seeders
- Bedding hippers
- Seed hoppers
- Forage blowers
- Silo spreaders
- Granular applicators
- Manure scrapers
- Sprayer booms
- Hay balers
- Skid steer post pullers
- Subsoilers
- Mist blowers
- Flotation sprayers
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- Post drivers
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Air reels
- Hay bale feeders
- Tractor guidance systems
- Shavings spreaders
- Stump grinders
- Rotary hoes
- Grain pumps
- Forage wagons
- Windrow inverters
- Peanut digger inverters
- Air drill seeders
- Manure augers
- Plows
- Flat-ended shovels
- Seed dryers
- Grain vacuums
- Feed conveyors
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Crop dividers
- Land levelers
- Gravity wagons
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- Ditchers
- Silage baggers
- Liquid storage tanks
- Hay conditioners
- Swath turners
- Power winches
- Combine grain headers
- Chaff spreaders
- Auger movers
- Silage feeders
- Silage boxes
- Seed drills
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- Tandem disks
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Silage mills
- Hay bale wrappers
- Forage boxes
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Manure chopper pumps
- Min-till planters
- Hay bale stackers
- Wheel loaders
- Bucket elevators
- Tower grain dryers
- Backhoes
- Seed vacuums
- Seed mixers
- Grain heaters
- Transfer augers
- Martens Farms Farm Trac
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate