Plant grass with seed spreaders, and operate straw blowers to cover seeded areas with mixtures of asphalt and straw.

“Plant grass with seed spreaders, and operate straw blowers to cover seeded areas with mixtures of asphalt and straw.” is a supplemental task performed by Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation. Among the occupation's 10 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#10 most important). About 52% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Perform agricultural activities. in Performing General Physical Activities
• Operate agricultural or forestry equipment. in Controlling Machines and Processes

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Mix pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides for application to trees, shrubs, lawns, or botanical crops. · importance 4.5
• Fill sprayer tanks with water and chemicals, according to formulas. · importance 4.5
• Lift, push, and swing nozzles, hoses, and tubes to direct spray over designated areas. · importance 4.3
• Identify lawn or plant diseases to determine the appropriate course of treatment. · importance 4.3
• Cover areas to specified depths with pesticides, applying knowledge of weather conditions, droplet sizes, elevation-to-distance ratios, and obstructions. · importance 4.2
• Start motors and engage machinery, such as sprayer agitators or pumps or portable spray equipment. · importance 4.1
• Connect hoses and nozzles selected according to terrain, distribution pattern requirements, types of infestations, and velocities. · importance 4.1
• Clean or service machinery to ensure operating efficiency, using water, gasoline, lubricants, or hand tools. · importance 3.9
• Provide driving instructions to truck drivers to ensure complete coverage of designated areas, using hand and horn signals. · importance 3.6

See all tasks on the Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-11235,
  title  = {Plant grass with seed spreaders, and operate straw blowers to cover seeded areas with mixtures of asphalt and straw.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-11235}
}