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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”

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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