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”

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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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