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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 “Equipment Operator”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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