Farmer

"Farmer" is also a: user

created by root

(person) by Jet-Poop (6.4 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! 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) 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.

Burrill.

printable version
chaos

Farmer's Manual	The truth of Gaia and environmentalism	Barbed wire	sorghum
New People's Army	What Would Jackie Chan Do?	PTO shaft	Belgium
polyculture	The collapse of civilization	drought diet for cows	Farming and the environment
Grandma's Theme	dzo	The National Grange	Heirlooms
Jukka Tilsa	Turnabout is fair play	Burdizzo clamp	American Gothic
Pinocchio: Chapter 21	Erie Canal	Maize	National Negro Business League

Y'know, if you log in, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site. Create a New User if you don't already have an account.

Login
Password

remember me
password reminder
register

Everything2 Help

Look at this mess the Death Borg made!
Old Chestnut
Glossary of Genetics terms
The Amityville Horror
root log: February 2001
Collateral
Polish pronunciation
chocolate sorbet
Miss American Pie: A Century of Pizza in America
B-tree
The Ten Commandments Judge
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox
Inferiority complex
Paul Simon

Glowing Fish
Tualatin River	(place)
The Jacket
Words of Advice	(idea)
keepinitreal
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?	(idea)
John_Fox
Good Intentions Gone Wrong	(person)
Cuckowski
Slavonic Princess	(poetry)
Heitah
Posthumous Oscar	(thing)
ignis_glaciesque
University of South Florida	(place)
ignis_glaciesque
Flogstaskriket	(idea)
liveforever
Caesar's last breath	(idea)
dagnyswaggart
she wants to believe	(personal)
antigravpussy
he doesn't know, but her eyes widen too far	(thing)
dagnyswaggart
Wild tides guard her secrets	(poetry)
Lord Brawl
Caesar's last breath	(poetry)
locke baron
Forgotten things in space	(fiction)
sitaraika
Colours	(idea)

Everything 2 is brought to you by the letter C and The Everything Development Company