Will “Fertilizing 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 “Fertilizing Machine Operator”

Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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