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Management & Leadership · Updated Aug 2026

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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
61/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
47/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence79/100
Task coverage87%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Manage nurseries that grow horticultural plants for sale to trade or retail customers, for display or exhibition, or for research.High
63
Determine plant growing conditions, such as greenhouses, hydroponics, or natural settings, and set planting and care schedules.High
67
Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data.High
71
Coordinate clerical, record-keeping, inventory, requisitioning, and marketing activities.Medium
70
Position and regulate plant irrigation systems, and program environmental and irrigation control computers.Medium
68
Provide information to customers on the care of trees, shrubs, flowers, plants, and lawns.Medium
61
Maintain financial, operational, production, or employment records for farms or ranches.Medium
70
Determine how to allocate resources and to respond to unanticipated problems, such as insect infestation, drought, and fire.High
73
Direct the breeding or raising of stock, such as cattle, poultry, or honeybees, using recognized breeding practices to ensure stock improvement.Medium
70
Devise and participate in activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries.High
70
Negotiate with buyers for the sale, storage, or shipment of crops or livestock.Medium
53
Inspect facilities and equipment for signs of disrepair, and perform necessary maintenance work.Medium
36
Direct and monitor the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks.High
31
Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.High
35
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Determine how to allocate resources and to respond to unanticipated problems, such as insect infestation, drought, and fire.73
  2. Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data.71
  3. Coordinate clerical, record-keeping, inventory, requisitioning, and marketing activities.70
  4. Maintain financial, operational, production, or employment records for farms or ranches.70
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Direct and monitor the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks.01
  2. Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.02
  3. Inspect facilities and equipment for signs of disrepair, and perform necessary maintenance work.03
  4. Manage nurseries that grow horticultural plants for sale to trade or retail customers, for display or exhibition, or for research.04
  5. Determine plant growing conditions, such as greenhouses, hydroponics, or natural settings, and set planting and care schedules.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency65
Physical dependency62
Adoption pressure48
Labour-market resilience69
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence79/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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