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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 “Packing Tractor Machine Operator”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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