Will “Corn Husker 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 Husker Machine Operator”

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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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