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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”

Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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