Mission Produce, Inc. (AVO)

Avocado grower, packer and distributor, farms flagged. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending October 31, 2025, filed December 18, 2025. Ranked 83 of the 90 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Mission Produce states about 3,800 employees by country, 2,100 in Peru and 300 in Guatemala on its farms read at crop support activities with the farm flag, and 1,400 in Mexico, the U.S. and Europe packing and distributing fruit read at fresh produce wholesaling.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 18% now, 20% at the end of 2027, 20% at the end of 2028, 20% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 20% desk work, 17% people work and 63% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 80% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 13% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

3,800 employees as of October 31, 2025 (stated). 500 of about 3,800 employees are in the U.S.; 2,100 in Peru, 800 in Mexico, 300 in Guatemala and 100 in the U.K. and Europe.

The filing: “As of October 31, 2025, we had approximately 3,800 employees located worldwide, of which, 2,100 were located in Peru, 800 were located in Mexico, 500 were located in the U.S., 300 were located in Guatemala and 100 were located in the U.K. and Europe.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 3,800 employees, 2,100 in Peru, 800 in Mexico, 500 in the U.S., 300 in Guatemala and 100 in the U.K. and Europe; temporary and seasonal workers are hired on the Peruvian farms and at packing houses in the U.S. and Mexico and are not counted; fiscal year ends October 31.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Support Activities for Crop Production, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Dole plc (DOLE, 32,027 employees)17% now, 19% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

9 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's AI sentences are risk factors: cyber-attacks including AI-enabled threats and AI-related operational errors could disrupt its operations, in nine sentences.

• “System security risks, data protection breaches, cyber-attacks (including artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled threats), AI-related operational errors, and systems integration issues could disrupt our internal operations or services provided to customers, and any such disruption could reduce our expected revenue, increase our expenses, damage our reputation and adversely affect our stock price.”
• “System security risks, data protection breaches, cyber-attacks (including those leveraging AI), and systems integration issues could disrupt our internal operations or services provided to customers, and any such disruption could reduce our expected revenue, increase our expenses, damage our reputation and adversely affect our stock price.”
• “System security risks (including risks related to AI), data protection breaches, cyber-attacks, and systems integration issues could disrupt our internal operations or services provided to customers, and any such disruption could reduce our expected revenue, increase our expenses, damage our reputation and adversely affect our stock price.”
• “System security risks, data protection breaches, cyber-attacks and systems integration issues (including risks related to AI) could disrupt our internal operations or services provided to customers, and any such disruption could reduce our expected revenue, increase our expenses, damage our reputation and adversely affect our stock price.”
• “The risk of cybersecurity attacks may increase as AI capabilities improve and are increasingly used to identify vulnerabilities and construct increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20240median 4
• Fiscal 20259median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• Farm work is outside the BLS survey; the farming share is read at support activities for crop production with this flag.
• The split between farms and packing and distribution follows the counts by country, read by description (c) for what each country's employees do.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001802974-25-000048, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.