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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”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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