Ag Equipment Operator

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, hand trucks, forklifts, ortransfer augers. Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter orsprayer machinery. Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, anddiseases, using hand sprayers. Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery. Operate or tend equipment usedin agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment. Maintain farm machinery andnotify supervisors when machinery malfunctions. Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, orharvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools. Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machineswith products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks. Operate towed machinessuch as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops. Weigh crop-filled containers,and record weights and other identifying information. Walk beside or ride on planting machines while insertingplants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals. Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farmworkers. Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps. Driveand operate farm machinery to plant, cultivate, harvest and store grain crops. Till soil; plant and cultivategrain. Tow harvesting equipment. Drive and operate self-propelled combine.Crops: Alfalfa, Corn, Wheat