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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 “Straw Baler”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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