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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 “Hay Baler”

Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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