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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…

Tasks for “Planter”

Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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