Will “Vegetable Farmworker” 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 “Vegetable Farmworker”

Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
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

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

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