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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 “Baler”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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