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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”

Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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