Livestock farm labourers
In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.
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.
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The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.
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).
- Monitoring livestock and reporting on their condition15
- Assisting with herding, droving and separating livestock for milking, shearing, transportation or slaughter and between pastures15
- Grading, sorting, packing produce into containers15
- Assisting with maintaining the health and welfare of livestock14
- Performing minor repairs on fixtures, buildings, equipment and fences.12
- Feeding, watering and cleaning animals and keeping their quarters clean12
- Loading and unloading supplies, produce and other materials11
- Collecting eggs and placing in incubators10
- Raking, pitching, stacking and storing hay, straw and other types of animal feed and bedding10
- Digging and shovelling to clear ditches or for other purposes7
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.
- Monitoring livestock and reporting on their condition(15)
- Assisting with herding, droving and separating livestock for milking, shearing, transportation or slaughter and between pastures(15)
- Grading, sorting, packing produce into containers(15)
- Assisting with maintaining the health and welfare of livestock(14)
- Performing minor repairs on fixtures, buildings, equipment and fences.(12)
- Feeding, watering and cleaning animals and keeping their quarters clean(12)
- Loading and unloading supplies, produce and other materials(11)
- Collecting eggs and placing in incubators(10)
- Raking, pitching, stacking and storing hay, straw and other types of animal feed and bedding(10)
- Digging and shovelling to clear ditches or for other purposes(7)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 12.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Monitoring livestock and reporting on their condition
- • Assisting with herding, droving and separating livestock for milking, shearing, transportation or slaughter and between pastures
- • Digging and shovelling to clear ditches or for other purposes
- • Collecting eggs and placing in incubators
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 Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers |
|---|---|
| Romania | 1.7% · 129 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 1.6% · 391 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 1.5% · 324 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 1.4% · 20 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 1.1% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 1.1% · 359 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 1.0% · 16 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 0.9% · 28 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 0.8% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 0.8% · 35 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 0.8% · 38 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 0.8% · 4 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 0.7% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 0.7% · 18 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 0.6% · 17 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 0.5% · 160 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 0.5% · 23 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 0.4% · 3 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 0.4% · 19 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 0.3% · 17 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 0.3% · 135 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 0.3% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 0.2% · 41 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 0.2% · 20 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 0.2% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 0.2% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 0.1% · 4 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 0.1% · 4 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Elementary occupations). 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.
- Switzerland3,328
- Denmark2,741
- Iceland2,731
- Norway2,674
- Belgium2,613
- Ireland2,273
- Luxembourg2,269
- Sweden2,059
- Austria1,998
- Finland1,979
- Germany1,973
- Italy1,928
- France1,870
- EU271,835
- Netherlands1,710
- Spain1,658
- Slovenia1,626
- Malta1,498
- Poland1,413
- Greece1,378
- Lithuania1,349
- Cyprus1,331
- Romania1,288
- Croatia1,241
- Czechia1,218
- Estonia1,181
- Slovakia1,165
- Latvia1,119
- Portugal1,102
- Hungary1,057
- Bulgaria844
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 Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers 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?