Will “Irrigation Worker” 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 “Irrigation Worker”

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.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
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.

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Horizontal feed mixers
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
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Weed wipes
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Portable sprayers
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Combine draper headers
Seed mixers
Field cultivators
Backhoes
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Combine grain headers
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Grain vacuums
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Hay bale forks
Header carriers
Litter spreaders
Land finishers
Batch grain dryers
Fertilizer blenders
Manure scrapers
Min-till drills
Rotary hoes
Combine header transports
Transfer augers
Manure injection systems
Crop shredders
Plows
Coulter disks
Seed scales
Silage mills
Hay bale compressors
Land levelers
Chisel disks
Grain pumps
Telehandlers
Silo spreaders
Tandem disks
Forklifts
Gravity wagons
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Straw and chaff spreaders
Hay bale loaders
Peanut diggers
Grain combines
Windrowers
Silage baggers
Hay bale movers
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Subsoilers
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Liquid ferilizer applicators
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Ditchers
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Hay bale feeders
Land planes
Seed vacuums
Post drivers
Combine headers
Combine cylinders
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Peanut harvesters
Skid steer hay bale spears
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Skid steer post pullers
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Seed tenders
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Air reels
Manure augers
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Seed strippers
Auger movers
Swath turners
Seed hoppers
Fertilizer spreaders
Air seeders
Chaff spreaders
Roller packers
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
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Forage tractors
Manure chopper pumps
Tractor guidance systems
Land rollers
Grass seeders
Sprayer booms
Silage wagons
Silage boxes
Skid steer tree cutters
Coulter rippers
Forage harvesters
Flat-ended shovels
Crop lifters
Shavings spreaders
Skid steer rotary tillers
Crop dividers
Lime spreaders
Seed drills
Row crop cultivators
Skid steer loaders
Hay bale shredders
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