How do they match: Agricultural Equipment Operators

  • Farm Manager

  • Drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops; feeding and herding livestock; or removing animal waste. 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.

  • Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
  • Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
  • Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
  • Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
  • Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

  • Confer with managers to make operational decisions.
  • Operate irrigation systems.