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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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