ag equipment operator

• Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

• Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, 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 used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

• Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

• Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools. • Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

• 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.

• Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.