Can AI Replace Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products in 2026?

High exposure. AI could handle about 81% of today's buyers and purchasing agents, farm products tasks by 2036, and there is a 58% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI is likely to take over many tasks outright.

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Timeline

Year2030

Tasks AI can do

40%

Headcount (2025 = 100)

Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs

19% 2030 · 58% 2036

One person could cover, 2036

2.7 roles

Share of today's tasks AI can perform

Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line)

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Lower-risk jobs that use similar skills

Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers30% risk by 2036 Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse10% risk by 2036 Farm and Home Management Educators30% risk by 2036

Your plan

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Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Calculate applicable government grain quotas".Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Arrange for transportation or storage of purchased products".Take on work where you sign off, decide or carry responsibility: that part stays human.Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output.Read about a lower-risk move: Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers.

Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks

Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers — 30% chance of contraction by 2036
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse — 10% chance of contraction by 2036
Farm and Home Management Educators — 30% chance of contraction by 2036

Similar occupations

Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products · Real Estate Brokers · Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products · First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers

Based on 12 O*NET tasks for "Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products" (SOC 13-1021.00). LLM alone: 6% of tasks; with AI tools: 100%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10