Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

Most exposed tasks

Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.

• Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data.72
• Maintain financial, operational, production, or employment records for farms or ranches.69
• Coordinate clerical, record-keeping, inventory, requisitioning, and marketing activities.69

Augmentable tasks

Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.

• Determine how to allocate resources and to respond to unanticipated problems, such as insect infestation, drought, and fire.58
• Analyze market conditions to determine acreage allocations.58
• Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.55

Most durable tasks

Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Task exposure values and classifications come from the versioned data release — they are structured data, not model output. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.

What this means

A score of 56 puts Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 7 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 13 augmentable, and 0 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.

One next move: audit how much of your week sits in the exposed tasks above — then shift time toward the durable set or investigate the adjacent roles below.

Lower-exposure adjacent roles

Shown only when the target is at least 10 points lower under the same score version and skill overlap is at least 50%. These are adjacent roles with lower task exposure — not guaranteed “safe careers”.

Labor-market context

• $89,900median wage
• 6,500employed
• 85,500annual openings
• -1.3%projected growth

Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.

Related roles

Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.

• Agricultural Technicians 58
• First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers 48
• Soil and Plant Scientists 48
• Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products 74
• Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary 38
• Biofuels Production Managers 73

FAQ — Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

What does a score of 56 mean for a Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers?

It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 56 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.

Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?

The highest-exposure tasks are: Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data; Maintain financial, operational, production, or employment records for farms or ranches; Coordinate clerical, record-keeping, inventory, requisitioning, and marketing activities. Exposure is scored per task from structured data, not generated by a language model.

Which parts of this job are most durable?

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Is this score personalized to me?

No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.