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Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate the management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries, timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments. May hire, train, and supervise farm workers or contract for services to carry out the day-to-day activities of the managed operation. May engage in or supervise planting, cultivating, harvesting, and financial and marketing activities.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Manage nurseries that grow horticultural plants for sale to trade or retail customers, for display or exhibition, or for research.Mostly human for now
- 03Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.Mostly human for now
- 04Direct and monitor the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks.Mostly human for now
- 05Determine how to allocate resources and to respond to unanticipated problems, such as insect infestation, drought, and fire.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Determine plant growing conditions, such as greenhouses, hydroponics, or natural settings, and set planting and care schedules.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Devise and participate in activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Position and regulate plant irrigation systems, and program environmental and irrigation control computers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Prepare reports required by state and federal laws.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Inspect facilities and equipment for signs of disrepair, and perform necessary maintenance work.Mostly human for now
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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
37%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 21% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 72% 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
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Manage nurseries that grow horticultural plants for sale to trade or retail customers, for display or exhibition, or for research.
- Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.
- Direct and monitor the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks.