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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 Picker Operator”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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