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Will AI replace Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals?

Attend to live farm, ranch, open range or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, rabbits, finfish, shellfish, and bees. The percentage shown is a task-exposure model, not a prediction of certain job loss.

O*NET 30.3 · 45-2093.00 · modeled exposure, not guaranteed job loss
LOW TASK EXPOSURE
22%
Estimated share of representative tasks exposed to current AI capabilities.
Task automation shareⓘ
22%Automatable
Automatable22%
Augmentable43%
Hard to automate35%
Based on analysis of representative responsibilities and current AI capability maturity.
Category#
Trades & Physical
Field & Physical
Modeled pay midpoint$
$90,500/yr
Directional estimate — verify locally
Time until impact⌁
6–10+ years
Earliest 2032 · widespread 2036+
Task-level replaceability ⓘ
Representative tasks ranked from highest to lowest AI exposure.
◇Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.32%
✦Physical dexterity in unpredictable settings27%
✦Safety responsibility and on-site judgment23%
⚙Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.20%
▥Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain.12%
Impact timeline ⓘ
How AI assistance may move from early support to wider adoption.
2032Next2036+
Light supportAI provides limited help with feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies..
AugmentationTools improve productivity without owning outcomes.
Human-ledCore work stays anchored in physical dexterity in unpredictable settings.
6–10+ yearsdirectional confidence window
HOW AI CHANGES THIS JOBtyping the logic in plain English
01>Start with the real work done by Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals.
02>AI can help with: Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
03>If a task is repetitive and easy to check, AI pressure goes up.
04>But a person is still needed for: Physical dexterity in unpredictable settings.
05>Likely result: AI mostly acts as a helper while the core job stays human-led.
06>Important: 22% is estimated task exposure—not a 22% chance of losing the job.
What AI can do
Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.LOW MATCH
Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.LOW MATCH
Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain.LOW MATCH
How estimates work →
Your human moat
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Physical dexterity in unpredictable settings

HIGH MOAT

Combined with safety responsibility and on-site judgment, this keeps a human in the loop.

Strength8.8
Similar-role comparison
RoleRisk
Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals22%
Pile Driver Operators22%
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General22%
First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers23%
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Why this score?

✓The model evaluates 3 representative core tasks.
✓The core work depends on presence, dexterity, or accountability.
✓Occupation and task language comes from O*NET 30.3.
✓The strongest human advantage is physical dexterity in unpredictable settings.
Research basis

O*NET 30.3 occupation tasks plus the ILO 2025 exposure framework. Scores are directional estimates.

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Data: O*NET 30.3 · Model framework: ILO 2025About O*NETShare report
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