Seneca Foods Corporation (SENEA)
Canned vegetable plants, year-round count. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending March 31, 2026, filed June 11, 2026. Ranked 80 of the 90 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
19%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
22%
Employees, annual report
2,995
Leading staffing pattern
Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now19%
- End of 202721%
- End of 202822%
- End of 203022%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 77%
- Becomes checking a model's work 19%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
The filing states approximately 2,995 employees at March 31, 2026, all at U.S. facilities, with about 4,015 more seasonal employees at the summer harvest peak, and describes fruit and vegetable packaging plants, so the year-round count is read whole at fruit and vegetable preserving by description.
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: 19% now, 21% at the end of 2027, 22% at the end of 2028, 22% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 22% desk work, 8% people work and 70% 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 77% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 19% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
2,995 employees as of March 31, 2026 (stated). 100% of employees are at the Company's facilities in the United States (stated).
The filing: “As of March 31, 2026, Seneca employed approximately 2,995 employees and employed an additional approximately 4,015 seasonal employees during the Company's peak summer harvest season.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing | 100% | The filing describes processing facilities that package fruits and vegetables, canned vegetables being 83% of revenue with frozen and fruit lines beside them, so the whole workforce is read at fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty food manufacturing by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 2,995 employees at March 31, 2026, about 2,900 full-time and about 95 seasonal in food packaging, with an additional approximately 4,015 seasonal employees during the peak summer harvest season, all at U.S. facilities; the HERO safety program with close to 100% participation; the SAVES, GROWS and LEADS development programs.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing, 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.
- The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC, 35,000 employees)19% now, 22% by 2028
- Conagra Brands, Inc. (CAG, 17,400 employees)19% now, 23% by 2028
- Campbell Soup Company (CPB, 13,500 employees)19% now, 22% by 2028
- Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. (LW, 10,000 employees)19% now, 22% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names artificial intelligence in no sentence.
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 20250median 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.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 2,900 | 2026-06-11 | 10-K |
| 2025-03-31 | 2,800 | 2025-06-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-03-31 | 2,800 | 2024-06-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-03-31 | 2,809 | 2023-06-13 | 10-K |
| 2022-03-31 | 2,800 | 2022-06-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-03-31 | 2,900 | 2021-06-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-03-31 | 3,200 | 2020-07-02 | 10-K |
| 2019-03-31 | 3,300 | 2019-06-13 | 10-K |
| 2018-03-31 | 4,300 | 2018-06-29 | 10-K |
| 2017-03-31 | 3,200 | 2017-05-25 | 10-K |
| 2016-03-31 | 3,000 | 2016-06-08 | 10-K |
| 2015-03-31 | 3,400 | 2015-06-09 | 10-K |
| 2014-03-31 | 3,500 | 2014-05-22 | 10-K |
| 2013-03-31 | 3,500 | 2013-05-23 | 10-K |
| 2012-03-31 | 3,400 | 2012-06-08 | 10-K |
| 2011-03-31 | 3,400 | 2011-05-26 | 10-K |
| 2010-03-31 | 3,300 | 2010-05-26 | 10-K |
| 2009-03-31 | 3,200 | 2009-06-12 | 10-K |
| 2008-03-31 | 3,201 | 2008-06-16 | 10-K |
| 2007-03-31 | 3,358 | 2007-06-14 | 10-K |
| 2006-03-31 | 2,906 | 2006-06-14 | 10-K |
| 2005-03-31 | 3,183 | 2005-06-14 | 10-K |
| 2004-03-31 | 3,277 | 2004-06-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-03-31 | 503 | 2003-06-26 | 10-K |
| 2002-03-31 | 539 | 2002-06-25 | 10-K |
| 2001-03-31 | 539 | 2001-06-26 | 10-K |
| 2000-03-31 | 539 | 2000-06-23 | 10-K |
| 1999-03-31 | 536 | 1999-06-28 | 10-K |
| 1998-03-31 | not read | 1998-06-22 | 10-K |
| 1997-03-31 | not read | 1997-06-27 | 10-K |
| 1996-03-31 | not read | 1996-07-01 | 10-K |
| 1995-03-31 | not read | 1995-06-28 | 10-K |
| 1994-07-31 | not read | 1994-10-24 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector's pick, 4,015, is the peak-season seasonal count, and the Index row the 2,900 full-time count; the year-end count of approximately 2,995 is the headcount with the seasonal peak in the notes (rule 2).
- No count by function; one pattern by description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001437749-26-020290, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Seneca Foods Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 19% now and 22% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Seneca Foods Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Seneca Foods Corporation employ?
- 2,995 as of March 31, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending March 31, 2026 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Seneca Foods Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 22% desk work, 8% people work and 70% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Seneca Foods Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 9, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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