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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”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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