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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”

Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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