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Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products
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
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 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.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss53%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 50% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.