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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 Ginner”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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