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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 “Baler Operator”

Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

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Land finishers
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Seed vacuums
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Combine headers
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Silage boxes
Mower conditioners
Tandem disks
Batch grain dryers
Coulter drills
Bucket elevators
Portable sprayers
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Threshers
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Land planes
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Land levelers
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Liquid ferilizer applicators
Row crop cultivators
Skid steer loaders
Compost turners
Grass drills
Air drill seeders
Hay bale movers
Combine header transports
Skid steer post drivers
Hay bale accumulators
Rock windrowers
Sprayer chassis
Peanut digger inverters
Chaff spreaders
Continuous flow grain dryers
Hay bale unrollers
Coulter rippers
Rotary hoes
Ditchers
Grain pumps
Air reels
Flat-ended shovels
Hay bale forks
Gravity wagons
Subsoilers
Hay bale wrappers
Offset disks
V hay rakes
Straw and chaff spreaders
2-point sprayers
Rotary tillers
Hay balers
Auger wagons
Skid steer rotary tillers
Land scrapers
Post drivers
Grain augers
Seed conveyors
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Silage bins
Seed scales
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Silage distributors
Field cultivators
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Flotation sprayers
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Forklifts
Shavings spreaders
Weed wipes
Land rollers
Crop lifters
Hay bale elevators
Seed drills
Seed mixers
Air seeders
Grain bin aeration fans
Feed grinders
Power winches
Grain heaters
Hay bale conveyors
Hay bale shredders
Plows
Dry bulk storage tanks
Horizontal feed mixers
Peanut dryers
Sprayer booms
Seed bins
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Seed tenders
Roller packers
Garlic harvesters
Coulter disks
Seed hoppers
Silo spreaders
Peanut diggers
Hay bale spears
Wheel loaders
Backhoes
Grass seeders
Granular applicators
Manure spreaders
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Hay bale trailers
Auger movers
All terrain vehicles ATV
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Lime spreaders
Grain vacuums
Pasture renovators
Fertilizer spreaders
Forage tractors
Forage harvesters
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Silage wagons
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Crop shredders
Forage blowers
Stump grinders
Manure storage tanks
Swath turners
Hay bale compressors
Seed strippers
Hay tedders
Min-till drills
Min-till cultivators
Skid steer post hole diggers
Grain drills
Feed conveyors
Mist blowers
Manure separators
Post hole diggers
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Transfer augers
Peanut digger shakers
Peanut dump carts
Hay conditioners
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