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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”

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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