Will “Vegetable Farmworker” 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 Farmworker”

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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 and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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