Glossary
Agricultural Equipment Operator Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential agricultural equipment operator terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key agricultural equipment operator vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in agricultural equipment operator training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Auto-steer
- GPS steering.
- Calibration
- Setting correct application rates.
- Combine
- A machine that harvests grain.
- Grain cart
- A wagon for unloading grain.
- Header
- The front of a combine.
- Implement
- Equipment pulled by a tractor.
- Moisture
- Grain water content.
- Overlap
- Covering the same area twice.
- Plug
- A blockage in equipment.
- PTO
- Power take-off that powers implements.
- Rollover protection
- ROPS on tractors.
- SMV emblem
- Slow-moving vehicle sign.
- Tillage
- Preparing soil.
- Variable rate
- Adjusting rates by field zone.
- Yield monitor
- Measures harvest yield.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Agricultural Equipment Operator practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Agricultural Equipment Operator training.
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