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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 “Ginning Operator”

Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.

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

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