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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 hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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