Will “Corn Detasseler 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 “Corn Detasseler Machine Operator”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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