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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”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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