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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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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 towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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