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Farm and Home Management Educators

Instruct and advise individuals and families engaged in agriculture, agricultural-related processes, or home management activities. Demonstrate procedures and apply research findings to advance agricultural and home management activities. May develop educational outreach programs. May instruct on either agricultural issues such as agricultural processes and techniques, pest management, and food safety, or on home management issues such as budgeting, nutrition, and child development.

8,220 people do this job in the US. $60,220 a year.

now
17%

of the working time. Estimate.

Kinds of work
  • 54%
  • 11%
  • 35%
0%

Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.

Half the desk work within reach
May 2027

On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.

Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030

0%25%50%75%100%2027202820292030NowDesk work: 54% of the time
Chosen to Ceiling: the share
DateNow
NowEnd of 2030

What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .

At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.

How far this has come

With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 13%. Today's estimate: 17%.

0%5%10%15%20%2023202420252026GPT-4, March 2023: 0% within reachGPT-4 Turbo (Nov 2023), November 2023: 0% within reachGPT-4o, May 2024: 0% within reachClaude 3.5 Sonnet (June 2024), June 2024: 0% within reacho1-preview, September 2024: 0% within reachClaude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct 2024), October 2024: 0% within reacho1, December 2024: 0% within reachClaude 3.7 Sonnet, February 2025: 0% within reacho3, April 2025: 1% within reachGPT-5, August 2025: 2% within reachGemini 3 Pro, November 2025: 3% within reachClaude Opus 4.5, November 2025: 3% within reachGPT-5.2, December 2025: 4% within reachClaude Opus 4.6, February 2026: 5% within reachClaude Mythos Preview (early), April 2026: 13% within reachToday (estimate), September 2026: 17% within reach
Each step is a new best model measured by METR, four in five; the dashed end is today's estimate. Point at a dot for the model.

A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.

The tasks

Sorted by . 15 tasks from .

TaskKind
Organize, advise, and participate in community activities and organizations, such as county and state fair events and 4-H Clubs.Done more than yearly by most who do it. 23%5 h1.7 h to 2.5 work daysStays with people
Conduct agricultural research, analyze data, and prepare research reports.Done more than yearly by most who do it. 12%4.2 work days1.7 work days to 3.5 work weeks0%Half by Nov 2028
Prepare and distribute leaflets, pamphlets, and visual aids for educational and informational purposes.Done more than monthly by most who do it. 11%5 h1.7 h to 1.7 work days17%Half by Apr 2027
Collaborate with producers to diagnose and prevent management and production problems.Done more than monthly by most who do it. 11%2.5 h50 min to 6.7 hStays with people
Act as an advocate for farmers or farmers' groups.Done daily by most who do it. 9%2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h46%Half by Oct 2026
Collect and evaluate data to determine community program needs.Done more than yearly by most who do it. 9%1.3 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days4%Half by Dec 2027
Maintain records of services provided and the effects of advice given.Done more than monthly by most who do it. 4%38 min13 min to 1.7 h95%Half by now
Research information requested by farmers.Done more than monthly by most who do it. 4%50 min25 min to 2.5 h95%Half by now
Schedule and make regular visits to farmers.Done more than monthly by most who do it. 4%2.5 h50 min to 3.3 hStays with people
Advise farmers and demonstrate techniques in areas such as feeding and health maintenance of livestock, growing and harvesting practices, and financial planning.Done more than weekly by most who do it. 3%1.3 h38 min to 3.3 hStays with people
Provide direct assistance to farmers by performing activities such as purchasing or selling products and supplies, supervising properties, and collecting soil and herbage samples for testing.Done more than yearly by most who do it.3%2.5 h50 min to 5 hStays with people
Conduct field demonstrations of new products, techniques, or services.Done more than yearly by most who do it. 2%4.2 h1.7 h to 1 work dayStays with people

Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.

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Where this job works

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