Can AI Replace Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse in 2026?

Lower exposure. AI could handle about 18% of today's farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse tasks by 2036, and there is a 10% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI mostly assists people in this role.

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Timeline

Year2030

Tasks AI can do

10%

Headcount (2025 = 100)

Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs

8% 2030 · 10% 2036

One person could cover, 2036

~1 roles

Share of today's tasks AI can perform

Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line)

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Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs".Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Maintain inventory, ordering materials as required".Get visibly better at your human core: "Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting".Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output.

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Based on 30 O*NET tasks for "Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse" (SOC 45-2092.00). LLM alone: 7% of tasks; with AI tools: 21%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10