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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
- Ginner
- Gin Operator
- 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 “Ginning Operator”
- Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
- 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.
- Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
- Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
- Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
- 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.
- Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
- 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.
- Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
- Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
- Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Related Technology & Tools
- All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
- Seed dryers
- Seed mixers
- Air reels
- Hay bale stackers
- Combine cylinders
- Peanut diggers
- Power winches
- Fertilizer blenders
- Garlic harvesters
- Forage wagons
- Grass seeders
- Auger movers
- Auger wagons
- Bed shapers
- Grain combines
- Min-till planters
- Seed drills
- Land rollers
- Hay bale movers
- Seed conveyors
- Mower conditioners
- Subcompact tractors
- Crop shredders
- Chisel disks
- Air carts
- Skid steer post hole diggers
- Continuous flow grain dryers
- Manure spreaders
- Hay bale trailers
- Subsoilers
- Grain heaters
- Seed strippers
- Feed mixer wagons
- Shavings spreaders
- All terrain vehicle ATV discs
- Silage bins
- Liquid storage tanks
- Windrowers
- Combine draper headers
- Peanut dryers
- Dry bulk storage tanks
- Cargo trucks
- Hay bale forks
- Hay bale accumulators
- Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
- Skid sprayers
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Min-till cultivators
- Hay bale feeders
- Manure injection systems
- Manure storage tanks
- Sprayer booms
- Plows
- Threshers
- Gravity wagons
- 3-point sprayers
- Utility vehicles
- Silage boxes
- V hay rakes
- Transfer augers
- Manure separators
- Coulter disks
- Hay conditioners
- Silage mills
- Skid steer post pullers
- Seed bins
- Grain pumps
- Haybines
- Peanut digger inverters
- Skid steer tree cutters
- Horizontal feed mixers
- Air drill seeders
- Harrow baskets
- Land finishers
- Grain drills
- Header carriers
- Soybean combine harvesters
- Crop lifters
- Track tractors
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Pasture renovators
- Manure chopper pumps
- All terrain vehicle ATV plows
- Combine header transports
- Portable sprayers
- Land planes
- Skid steer rotary tillers
- Telehandlers
- Crop dividers
- Forage blowers
- Combine grain headers
- Seed hoppers
- Rotary hay rakes
- Silage distributors
- Grain vacuums
- Wheel loaders
- Coulter rippers
- Rotary hoes
- Skid steer rock grapples
- Ditchers
- Silage wagons
- Grain augers
- Batch grain dryers
- Hay tedders
- Seed vacuums
- Litter spreaders
- Hay bale spears
- Hay bale wrappers
- Bucket elevators
- Nurse tanks
- Flotation sprayers
- Hay bale elevators
- All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
- Grass drills
- Compact tractors
- Land levelers
- Silage baggers
- Post hole diggers
- Feed grinders
- Hay bale compressors
- Post drivers
- Flat-ended shovels
- Weed wipes
- Hay balers
- Chisel plows
- Offset disks
- Backhoes
- Lime spreaders
- Farm tractors
- Skid steer post drivers
- Land scrapers
- Field cultivators
- Windrow inverters
- Mist blowers
- All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
- Tractor guidance systems
- Combine headers
- Seed scales
- Granular applicators
- Field rollers
- Skid steer loaders
- Forage tractors
- Tower grain dryers
- All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
- Hay bale unrollers
- Hay bale loaders
- Grain bin aeration fans
- Forage boxes
- Row crop cultivators
- Seed tenders
- Silo spreaders
- Peanut digger shakers
- Hammermills
- Manure scrapers
- Coulter drills
- Feed conveyors
- Manure augers
- Chaff spreaders
- Peanut harvesters
- Min-till drills
- Compost turners
- Silage feeders
- Tandem disks
- Hay bale conveyors
- Peanut dump carts
- Straw and chaff spreaders
- Air seeders
- 2-point sprayers
- Rotary tillers
- Silage wrappers
- Hay bale shredders
- Skid steer hay bale spears
- Stump grinders
- Forage harvesters
- Liquid ferilizer applicators
- Forklifts
- Tomato harvesters
- All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
- Rock windrowers
- Bedding hippers
- Roller packers
- Sprayer chassis
- All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
- Grain wagons
- Disk rippers
- Swath turners
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Martens Farms Farm Site Mate
- Martens Farms Farm Trac
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager