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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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