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.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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 or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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