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”

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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