Farmer

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Farmers working on a field in India.

A farmer is a person who grows crops and raises animals to be used as food. This has been a common job for people since the beginning of civilization.

What farmers do

The word farmer usually refers to a person who has a field, orchard, vineyard, or garden where food is grown. This food is eaten or sold after it is harvested. Farmers may also grow raw materials for industrial purposes. Some examples of raw materials that are used in this way are:

• cereals for alcoholic beverages
• hides (animal skin) for leather
• maize/corn for plastics or fuel
• wool or cotton for yarns and making cloth

Some farmers also raise animals to be used for meat, milk, eggs or other things.

Farmer Media

• FFA greenhouse training 120813-A-PO167-151.jpg

  Afghani farmers learning about greenhouses

• A farmer who is hosting a pilot project to use stored rainwater for irrigation of food crops during Nicaragua's intense dry season.

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  'Farming is a public service' shirt

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  Annual changes in prices received by farmers, top and bottom countries in 2022

• Illinois Agricultural Association record (microform) (January 1944- December 1949) (16054532294).jpg

  "Death's Album of Careless Illinois Farm Folks", a 1949 cartoon listing 275 tractor-related accidents the previous year, and 183 livestock-related incidents

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  Connecticut dairy farmer standing near the herd.

• Swiss hay farmer in Versam.jpg

  Swiss farmer enjoying the view from the mountains in Versam during the summer hay harvest.

• tea production in tanzania

Related pages

• Agriculture