agronomist

Agronomists provide consulting services to companies, agricultural cooperatives, agronomical crop growers and horticultural crop growers on the cultivation of food crops. They study the science, technology and business related to growing plants. They examine crops and perform experiments in order to improve crop yields and farms' production. Agronomists also examine the most effective ways to harvest and cultivate plants.

The most in-demand skills for this role include environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry, consultation methods, mathematics, crop production principles, pesticides, European pesticide legislation. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives agronomist a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.