Will “Vegetable Loader Machine 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 “Vegetable Loader Machine Operator”

Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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