Farmer

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(person) by Jet-Poop (23.7 min) (print) ? 1 C! I like it! Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:26:32

A person who cultivates land, usually for growing crops. I know you're probably thinking, "Oh, we don't need these people. They don't produce computers or software. They live in small towns without access to DSL or high culture. They drive big slow tractors on the highway and slow me down when I'm driving in the country." Guess what? You need them. They produce wheat for your pizza crust and tomatoes for your pizza sauce. They grow cotton for that holey underwear you're wearing. They grow sorghum, which is fed to the cattle that will eventually become your cheeseburger. You need them pretty damn desperately, so please refrain from leaning on your horn when you blast past their tractors on the highway.

Technically, a farmer can also raise livestock, but if you call a man who raises a herd of cattle a farmer... well, both the rancher and the farmer will get insulted. You shouldn't insult folks who work in agriculture. The ranchers have cows they can stampede, and the farmers have pitchforks. Both often own shotguns.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) I like it! Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:36:25

Farm"er (?), n. [Cf. F. fermier.]

One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. Smart. (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. (c) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. (d) Mining The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

Farmer-general [F. fermier-general], one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down. -- Farmers' satin, a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. McElrath. -- The king's farmer O. Eng.Law, one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out.

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