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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Farm Equipment Operators

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops; feeding and herding livestock; or removing animal waste. 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.

Agricultural Equipment Operators · O*NET 45-2091.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

2 of 6tools on this list have an AI solution available today

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AI you can use for this job

8 matched to the tools agricultural equipment operators use. Showing 8.

The tools this job actually uses

6 documented for this occupation. Showing 6, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Accesshot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager
  • Martens Farms Farm Site Mate
  • Martens Farms Farm Trac

What this job involves

18 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 18.

  1. Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
  2. Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
  3. Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
  4. Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
  5. Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
  6. Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
  7. Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
  8. Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
  9. Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
  10. Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
  11. Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
  12. Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
  13. Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
  14. Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
  15. Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
  16. Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
  17. Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
  18. Operate drones to monitor crop health, growth and pest infestations, and apply targeted treatments.