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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 “Straw Baler”

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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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