Jobs / Management and business operations / 13-1021.00
Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products
Purchase farm products either for further processing or resale. Includes tree farm contractors, grain brokers and market operators, grain buyers, and tobacco buyers. May negotiate contracts.
- US jobs
- Not reported by BLS
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of buyers and purchasing agents, farm products?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Management and business operations:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. On TheAgentCompany, which gives agents workplace tasks inside a simulated software company, the best agent resolves 42.9% of tasks (a November 2025 result). No task-level benchmark in our collection maps directly to management or business operations.
- Project levelPartialMixed. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, and the best agent passes 73.5% of APEX-Agents tasks on the first try. Running a business is weaker: on Vending-Bench 2 the best model ends a simulated year with $15,515, about a quarter of Andon Labs' estimate for a good strategy.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Purchase, for further processing or for resale, farm products, such as milk, grains, or Christmas trees.
- Negotiate contracts with farmers for the production or purchase of farm products.
- Maintain records of business transactions and product inventories, reporting data to companies or government agencies as necessary.
- Review orders to determine product types and quantities required to meet demand.
- Arrange for transportation or storage of purchased products.
- Coordinate or direct activities of workers engaged in cutting, transporting, storing, or milling products and maintaining records.
- Arrange for processing or resale of purchased products.
- Examine or test crops or products to estimate their value, determine their grade, or locate any evidence of disease or insect damage.
- Estimate land production possibilities, surveying property and studying factors such as crop rotation history, soil fertility, or irrigation facilities.
Other job titles for this occupation (43)
Buyer · Cattle Buyer · Grain Buyer · Grain Market Advisor · Grain Marketing Advisor · Grain Merchandiser · Grain Origination Specialist · Produce Broker · Purchasing Agent · Tobacco Buyer · Buying Agent · Cattle Broker · Chicken Buyer · Clean Rice Broker · Cotton Buyer · Cotton Purchasing Agent · Cow Buyer · Egg Buyer · Farm Buyer · Farm Product Purchaser · Farm Products Purchasing Agent · Fruit Buyer · Fur Buyer · Grain Broker · Grain Purchasing Agent · Hide Buyer · Hog Buyer · Horse Buyer · Livestock Broker · Livestock Buyer · Livestock Commission Agent · Livestock Dealer · Livestock Purchasing Agent · Livestock Speculator · Livestock, Grain, Cotton and Other Farm Products Purchasing Agent · Produce Buyer · Produce Shipper · Purchasing Buyer · Purchasing Specialist · Seed Buyer · Stock Buyer · Wheat Buyer · Wool Buyer