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If you expand the "What Agricultural Workers Do" section, it says: > Agricultural workers maintain crops and tend livestock. They perform physical labor and

If you expand the "What Agricultural Workers Do" section, it says: > Agricultural workers maintain crops and tend livestock. They perform physical labor and operate machinery under the supervision of farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers. According to https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/farmers-ranchers-and-other-agricultural-managers.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/farmers-ranchers-and-othe..., there are 952,000 jobs as "agricultural managers," which isn't how I'd naively expect things to be divided, but it does make sense. I wonder how the remaining jobs are categorized.

MattGaiser 5y ago
With automation, they may not manage anybody anymore, just machinery.
- meepmorp 5y ago
  Eventually, we'll need philosophers to sort it all out.
  - mirkules 5y ago
    Luckily, there is no shortage of philosophers, especially on the internet.
munk-a 5y ago
If agricultural workers are people working under the guidance of other folks then managers may also include the "self-managed" i.e. any independent farmers including those that rely heavily on automation. There's also probably a fair chance that subcontracting can mess this up with multiple farm hands hired onto a farm all counting as agricultural managers. It feels like agricultural worker is actually quite narrowly defined to only be unskilled people specifically requiring oversight and management.