Agricultural and forestry production managers
AI can help with a few sub-tasks (emails, paperwork), but the core of the job doesn't change.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
Work out your own score ↓What can you do?
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Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, recording information such as farm management practices, and preparing financial and operational reports56
- Monitoring agricultural and forestry market activity and planning production to meet contract requirements and market demand42
- Planning the type, intensity and sequence of farm operations (e.g. determining the best times for planting, spraying and harvesting)40
- Conferring with buyers to arrange for the sale of crops and livestock26
- Analysing soil to determine types and quantities of fertilizer required for maximum production25
- Inspecting plantations and fields to determine maturity dates of crops, or to estimate potential crop damage from weather25
- Contracting with farmers or independent owners for production of crops and livestock, or for management of production24
- Overseeing the selection, training and performance of agricultural and forestry workers and contractors.22
- Identifying and controlling agricultural and forest environmental toxins, weeds, pests and diseases19
- Purchasing machinery, equipment, and supplies such as tractors, seed, fertilizer, and chemicals18
- Organizing farming operations such as maintaining buildings, water supply systems and equipment14
- Directing and coordinating activities such as planting, irrigation, chemical application, harvesting, and grading14
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, recording information such as farm management practices, and preparing financial and operational reports(56)
- Monitoring agricultural and forestry market activity and planning production to meet contract requirements and market demand(42)
- Planning the type, intensity and sequence of farm operations (e.g. determining the best times for planting, spraying and harvesting)(40)
- Conferring with buyers to arrange for the sale of crops and livestock(26)
- Analysing soil to determine types and quantities of fertilizer required for maximum production(25)
- Inspecting plantations and fields to determine maturity dates of crops, or to estimate potential crop damage from weather(25)
- Contracting with farmers or independent owners for production of crops and livestock, or for management of production(24)
- Overseeing the selection, training and performance of agricultural and forestry workers and contractors.(22)
- Identifying and controlling agricultural and forest environmental toxins, weeds, pests and diseases(19)
- Purchasing machinery, equipment, and supplies such as tractors, seed, fertilizer, and chemicals(18)
- Organizing farming operations such as maintaining buildings, water supply systems and equipment(14)
- Directing and coordinating activities such as planting, irrigation, chemical application, harvesting, and grading(14)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 27.)
About 8% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, recording information such as farm management practices, and preparing financial and operational reports
- • Monitoring agricultural and forestry market activity and planning production to meet contract requirements and market demand
- • Directing and coordinating activities such as planting, irrigation, chemical application, harvesting, and grading
- • Organizing farming operations such as maintaining buildings, water supply systems and equipment
An estimate from the ILO task scores. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent or stored.
How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Production and specialised services managers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Production and specialised services managers |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5.5% · 1,892 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 4.6% · 32 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 4.1% · 115 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 3.2% · 7 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 3.2% · 54 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 3.1% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 3.0% · 158 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 2.8% · 82 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 2.8% · 80 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 2.7% · 140 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 2.7% · 24 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 2.5% · 118 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 2.5% · 728 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 2.5% · 119 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 2.4% · 238 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 2.3% · 33 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 2.2% · 381 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 2.1% · 109 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 1.9% · 49 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 1.9% · 84 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 1.9% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 1.7% · 91 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 1.4% · 341 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 1.4% · 14 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 1.3% · 569 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 1.3% · 34 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 1.3% · 292 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 1.2% · 38 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 0.9% · 72 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 0.9% · 38 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Managers). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland8,354
- Italy7,983
- Luxembourg7,683
- Belgium7,390
- Germany7,172
- Denmark6,654
- Austria6,190
- Ireland6,181
- Finland6,101
- Cyprus5,842
- Norway5,718
- Iceland5,653
- Netherlands5,508
- EU275,374
- France5,226
- Sweden4,960
- Slovenia4,808
- Spain4,699
- Czechia4,257
- Portugal4,203
- Greece4,190
- Malta4,128
- Poland4,112
- Romania4,078
- Lithuania4,031
- Hungary3,641
- Bulgaria3,559
- Croatia3,524
- Slovakia3,418
- Estonia3,290
- Latvia3,288
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Production and specialised services managers group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?