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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 “Sugar Cane Planting Equipment Operator”

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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