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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 “Sprayer”

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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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