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”

Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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