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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 “Ginning Operator”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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