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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”

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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

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