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