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.

Other names for Agricultural Equipment Operators: Agricultural Plow Operator, Baler, Baler Operator, Bean Picker Machine Operator, Berry Picker Machine Operator, Broomcorn Thresher, Bulbs Farmworker, Cane Flume Chute Operator, Cane Flume Feeding Machine Operator, Cane Piler, Chopper Operator, Combine Driver, Combine Operator, Corn Cutter, Corn Husker Machine Operator, Cotton Baler, Cotton Chopper, Cotton Ginner, Cotton Picker Operator, Cotton Stripper, Cultivator, Custom Harvester, Cutter Operator, Dairy Machine Operator Farmworker, Diversified Crops Farmworker, Equipment Operator, Equipment Operator Wage Hand, Farm Equipment Operator, Farm Hand, Farm Laborer, Farm Machine Tender, Farm Manager, Farm Tractor Operator, Farm Worker, Farmer, Fertilizer Applicator, Fertilizing Machine Operator, Field Crop Farmworker, Field Crops Harvest Machine Operator, Field Hauler, Fruit Farmworker, Fruit Harvest Machine Operator, Fruit Harvester, Machine Operator, Fruit Loader, Machine Operator, Fruit Picker, Machine Operator, Fruit Thinner, Machine Operator, General Farmworker, Gin Operator, Ginner, Ginning Operator, Grain Combine Driver, Grain Combiner, Grain Farmworker, Grain Thresher, Harvester Operator, Hay Baler, Hay Chopper, Hay Rake Operator, Hay Stacker Operator, Irrigation Worker, Laborer, Lime Spreader, Liquid Fertilizer Servicer, Loader Operator, Machine Farmworker, Machine Milker, Machine Operator Cane Cutter, Machine Operator Farmworker, Machine Operator Hay Stacker, Machine Operator Hop Picker, Machine Operator Hop Worker, Machine Operator Picker, Machine Operator Replanter, Machine Operator Transplanter, Machine Pecan Gatherer, Machine Pecan Picker, Machine Tender, Mechanic, Milking Machine Operator, Mushroom Growth Media Mixer, Nut Sheller Machine Operator, Orange Picker Machine Operator, Packing Tractor Machine Operator, Peanut Picker, Peanut Shaker, Picker Operator, Planter, Planting Machine Crewman, Planting Machine Operator, Plowman, Portable Feed Mill Operator, Potato Bucker, Potato Picker, Rake Operator, Raking Machine Operator, Replanting Machine Crewman, Replanting Machine Operator, Rice Farmworker, Seed Potato Arranger, Sprayer, Straw Baler, Sugar Cane Planter Machine Operator, Sugar Cane Planting Equipment Operator, Thresher, Tobacco Primer Machine Operator, Tractor Driver, Tractor Operator, Tractor Operator Helper, Truck Driver, Vegetable Farmworker, Vegetable Harvest Machine Operator, Vegetable Loader Machine Operator, Windrower Operator,

• Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
• Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
• Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
• Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
• Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
• Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
• 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.
• Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
• Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
• Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
• Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
• 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.
• Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
• Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
• Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.