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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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