How do they match: Agricultural Equipment Operators

  • Diversified Crops Farmworker
  • Field Crop Farmworker
  • Field Crops Harvest Machine Operator

  • 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.

  • Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
  • Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
  • Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
  • Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
  • Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

  • Plant crops, trees, or other plants.