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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”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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