Examine or test crops or products to estimate their value, determine their grade, or locate any evidence of disease or insect damage.

“Examine or test crops or products to estimate their value, determine their grade, or locate any evidence of disease or insect damage.” is a supplemental task performed by Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products. Among the occupation's 12 rated tasks, workers place it 6th by importance (#7 most important). About 62% 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.

• Determine values or prices of goods or services. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

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 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.004% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 89% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Purchase, for further processing or for resale, farm products, such as milk, grains, or Christmas trees. · importance 4.4
• Arrange for processing or resale of purchased products. · importance 4.2
• Negotiate contracts with farmers for the production or purchase of farm products. · importance 4.2
• Arrange for transportation or storage of purchased products. · importance 4.1
• Maintain records of business transactions and product inventories, reporting data to companies or government agencies as necessary. · importance 4.1
• Review orders to determine product types and quantities required to meet demand. · importance 3.9
• Coordinate or direct activities of workers engaged in cutting, transporting, storing, or milling products and maintaining records. · importance 3.5
• Sell supplies, such as seed, feed, fertilizers, or insecticides, arranging for loans or financing as necessary. · importance 3.5
• Advise farm groups or growers on land preparation or livestock care techniques that will maximize the quantity and quality of production. · importance 3.2
• Calculate applicable government grain quotas. · importance 2.8
• Estimate land production possibilities, surveying property and studying factors such as crop rotation history, soil fertility, or irrigation facilities. · importance 2.8

See all tasks on the Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products 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
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  title  = {Examine or test crops or products to estimate their value, determine their grade, or locate any evidence of disease or insect damage.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-12884}
}