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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”

Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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