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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”

Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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