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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 “Cotton Baler”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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