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Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products

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Purchase farm products either for further processing or resale. Includes tree farm contractors, grain brokers and market operators, grain buyers, and tobacco buyers. May negotiate contracts.

9 main tasks · most important first

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01Purchase, for further processing or for resale, farm products, such as milk, grains, or Christmas trees.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
02Negotiate contracts with farmers for the production or purchase of farm products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
03Maintain records of business transactions and product inventories, reporting data to companies or government agencies as necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
04Review orders to determine product types and quantities required to meet demand.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
05Arrange for transportation or storage of purchased products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
06Coordinate or direct activities of workers engaged in cutting, transporting, storing, or milling products and maintaining records.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
07Arrange for processing or resale of purchased products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
08Examine or test crops or products to estimate their value, determine their grade, or locate any evidence of disease or insect damage.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
09Estimate land production possibilities, surveying property and studying factors such as crop rotation history, soil fertility, or irrigation facilities.AI could speed this up, with extra tools

Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.

Checked O*NET 31.0, August 2026Corrections

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O*NET 31.0 Database, US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), 2026-08. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (observed exposure), Anthropic, 2026-03-05. Licence: CC BY.

Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations (v1.1), Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025-12. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

GPTs are GPTs: labor market impact potential of LLMs (Science, 2024), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023. Licence: MIT.

What work can robots do? (robot exposure index), Anthropic, 2026-09-30. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

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