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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 Chopper”

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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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