Will “Portable Feed Mill 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 “Portable Feed Mill Operator”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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