Will “Vegetable Harvest 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 Harvest Machine Operator”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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