Will “Corn Detasseler Machine Operator” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔

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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 “Corn Detasseler Machine Operator”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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