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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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