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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 “Hay Baler”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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