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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 Operator”

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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

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

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