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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”

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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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