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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 “Gin Operator”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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