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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 “Chopper Operator”

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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