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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”

Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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