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Job Description

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.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 45-2091.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 30,430.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 28,700 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Agricultural Equipment Operators”.

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Tasks for “Cotton Baler”

Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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Hay bale unrollers
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Self-propelled sprayers
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Sprayer booms
2-point sprayers
Silage baggers
Gravity wagons
Stump grinders
Tractor guidance systems
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Forage wagons
Chisel plows
Manure separators
Tomato harvesters
Batch grain dryers
Manure storage tanks
Windrowers
Tandem disks
Skid sprayers
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
Seed conveyors
Auger movers
Crop shredders
Roller packers
Skid steer rock grapples
Manure spreaders
Grain augers
Wheel loaders
Rotary hay rakes
Farm tractors
All terrain vehicles ATV
Row crop cultivators
Hay balers
Field rollers
Hay bale stackers
Windrow inverters
Manure injection systems
Grain heaters
Horizontal feed mixers
Air carts
Manure scrapers
Hay conditioners
Telehandlers
Ditchers
Granular applicators
Rotary hoes
Hay bale conveyors
Tower grain dryers
Seed tenders
Grain pumps
Peanut digger shakers
Crop lifters
Hay bale shredders
Coulter rippers
Peanut diggers
Transfer augers
Weed wipes
Offset disks
Land planes
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Land rollers
Seed hoppers
Post drivers
Post hole diggers
Lime spreaders
Min-till drills
Skid steer loaders
Hay bale forks
Chisel disks
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Hay tedders
Forage blowers
Compost turners
Hay bale spears
Garlic harvesters
Silage wrappers
Forklifts
Silage wagons
Bedding hippers
Skid steer hay bale spears
Silage distributors
Skid steer post hole diggers
Harrow baskets
Field cultivators
Feed grinders
Forage harvesters
Seed strippers
Nurse tanks
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Cargo trucks
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Grain drills
Hay bale trailers
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Air seeders
V hay rakes
Land scrapers
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Hay bale wrappers
Coulter drills
Grass drills
Plows
Skid steer post drivers
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
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Peanut harvesters
Hay bale compressors
Flat-ended shovels
3-point sprayers
Air drill seeders
Land levelers
Pasture renovators
Hay bale feeders
Track tractors
Backhoes
Dry bulk storage tanks
Disk rippers
Hay bale accumulators
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Min-till cultivators
Fertilizer blenders
Fertilizer spreaders
Silo spreaders
Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
Combine headers
Header carriers
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
Compact tractors
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Straw and chaff spreaders
Litter spreaders
Crop dividers
Seed bins
Combine cylinders
Manure augers
Mower conditioners
Power winches
Rotary tillers
Combine grain headers
Skid steer post pullers
Sprayer chassis
Silage feeders
Seed dryers
Skid steer tree cutters
Seed mixers
Soybean combine harvesters
Combine header transports
Auger wagons
Forage boxes
Threshers
Swath turners
Liquid storage tanks
Rock windrowers
Coulter disks
Combine draper headers
Hay bale elevators
Shavings spreaders
Grain bin aeration fans
Peanut dryers
Land finishers
Haybines
Hammermills
Hay bale movers
Air reels
Portable sprayers
Mist blowers
Flotation sprayers

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