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”

Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Related Technology & Tools

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