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Agricultural Equipment Operator resume

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Also called ag equipment operator, agricultural farm equipment operator, agricultural plow operator and agriculture equipment operator.

$41,730
Median pay a year
28,500
People do this work
6
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Agricultural Equipment Operator

Summary

Agricultural Equipment Operator driving and controlling tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment for planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops, as well as feeding livestock and performing post-harvest tasks

Experience

Agricultural Equipment Operator

Where you worked

Month Year to Month Year
  • Operated tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment for agricultural production
  • Loaded and unloaded crops or containers using forklifts and handtrucks
  • Sprayed fertilizer and pesticide solutions using hand sprayers
  • Mixed materials and dumped solutions into planter or sprayer machinery
  • Adjusted and repaired farm machinery, notifying supervisors of malfunctions
  • Attached farm implements like plows and sprayers to tractors with hand tools
  • Drove trucks to haul crops, supplies, and farm workers

Skills

Core Skills
Operating farming equipment, Attaching equipment extensions, Measuring forestry characteristics, Preparing materials for animals, Loading materials for processing, Loading agricultural products, Driver's license, Maintaining agricultural equipment, Inspecting equipment or facilities
Hands-On Work
Planting other plants, Applying chemical solutions

Education

  • High School Diploma
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  • Loaded and unloaded crops, ensuring timely processing and delivery.
  • Sprayed fertilizer and pesticide solutions to promote healthy crop growth and control pests.

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Add how often you loaded and unloaded crops.

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Loaded and unloaded crops several times each shift, ensuring timely processing and delivery

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Several times each shiftMost of the dayA few loads every hour

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Show what improved once you sprayed the solutions.

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Sprayed fertilizer and pesticide solutions to promote healthy crop growth and control pests.

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Crops grew healthier and strongerWeed growth was controlled effectively

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  • Operating farming equipment
  • Maintaining agricultural equipment
  • Attaching equipment extensions
  • Inspecting equipment or facilities
  • Measuring forestry characteristics
  • Preparing materials for animals
  • Loading materials for processing
  • Loading agricultural products
  • Planting other plants
  • Applying chemical solutions
  • Operating conveyors and industrial materials
  • Operating irrigation systems

The work itself

What an Agricultural Equipment Operator does

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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.

What it pays

How much does an Agricultural Equipment Operator make?

Annual pay across the United States. The middle figure is the median: half earn less than that, and half earn more.

25th percentile$36,810
Median$41,730
75th percentile$48,100

About 28,500 people do this work in the United States.

What it pays in each state
State25th percentileMedian75th percentile
AL$28,930$33,910$36,920
AR$29,320$32,060$42,250
AZ$33,620$36,600$37,400
CA$36,960$38,820$46,090
CO$34,040$37,290$44,940
DE$46,120$49,910$57,100
FL$34,490$36,660$42,120
GA$32,850$35,410$41,000
IA$43,010$47,220$57,960
ID$37,370$38,920$42,780
IL$39,310$46,050$48,600
IN$43,370$46,280$51,320
KS$39,670$45,570$48,380
KY$40,150$42,000$46,260
LA$36,350$58,520$61,000
MA$37,590$49,150$58,140
MD$38,400$39,580$49,550
ME$46,490$46,490$46,490
MI$35,210$42,380$46,680
MN$45,260$48,520$54,490
MO$39,250$46,490$58,870
MS$28,720$36,460$41,540
MT$45,500$58,770$65,890
NC$28,940$39,580$46,540
ND$44,090$48,080$54,260
NE$41,000$46,670$57,760
NJ$38,480$41,660$47,640
NM$35,580$35,580$37,730
NY$45,250$50,020$54,870
OH$45,360$47,220$53,880
OK$26,880$34,900$54,960
OR$39,110$44,150$48,510
PA$37,320$47,100$56,220
SC$31,680$34,490$37,990
SD$43,880$48,060$49,120
TN$27,420$37,750$42,970
TX$29,850$34,260$37,470
VA$44,240$47,890$54,740
WA$37,520$38,470$49,210
WI$40,800$47,100$53,110

Other names

Other names for this job

ag equipment operator, agricultural farm equipment operator, agricultural plow operator, agriculture equipment operator, baler operator, bean picker machine operator, berry picker machine operator, cane cutter machine operator, cane flume chute operator, cane flume feeding machine operator, chopper operator, combine operator.

More names for this work

corn detasseler machine operator, corn husker machine operator, cotton picker operator, cutter operator, dairy machine operator, equipment operator, farm equipment operator, farm tractor operator, feed mixer operator, fertilizing machine operator, field crops harvest machine operator, forestry equipment operator, fruit harvest machine operator, fruit harvester machine operator, fruit loader machine operator, fruit picker machine operator, fruit thinner machine operator, gin operator, ginning operator, harvester operator, hay rake operator, hay stacker machine operator, hay stacker operator, hop picker machine operator, loader operator, machine operator, milking machine operator, nut sheller machine operator, orange picker machine operator, packing tractor machine operator, picker machine operator, picker operator, planting machine operator, portable feed mill operator, rake operator, raking machine operator, replanter machine operator, replanting machine operator, sugar cane planter machine operator, sugar cane planting equipment operator, tobacco primer machine operator, transplanter machine operator, vegetable harvest machine operator, vegetable loader machine operator, windrower operator, baler, broomcorn thresher, cane piler.

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