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Farmer — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Agricultural Technicians · Agricultural Engineers · Soil and Plant Scientists · First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers · Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary · Biofuels Production Managers · Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products · Food Scientists and Technologists
In the official classification#
Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 4: considerable preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 11-9013.00 (Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Complex Problem SolvingVery important
- Management of Personnel ResourcesVery important
- CoordinationVery important
- Judgment and Decision MakingVery important
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- PersuasionImportant
- NegotiationImportant
Knowledge
- Administration and ManagementVery important
- Production and ProcessingVery important
- BiologyVery important
- MathematicsVery important
- Personnel and Human ResourcesImportant
- English LanguageImportant
Work activities
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsVery important
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing WorkVery important
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesVery important
- Scheduling Work and ActivitiesVery important
- Thinking CreativelyVery important
- Getting InformationVery important
Abilities
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
- Problem SensitivityVery important
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
- Inductive ReasoningVery important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
Essential skills
- Active ListeningVery important
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- Reading ComprehensionVery important
- SpeakingVery important
- Active LearningImportant
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 6 task judgements are for: 2 backed by a verified event, 4 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.