Farmer
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A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. A farmer can do his own farm work, or hire others to work the farm for him. If enough removed from the daily chores, they could become landed gentry, or the gentry, in Britain largely a historical social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate.
Traditional individual family farms have increasingly been pushed out by Corporate farming, the practice of large-scale agriculture on farms owned or greatly influenced by large companies. In 1870, almost 50 percent of the U.S. population was employed in agriculture.[1] As of 2008, less than 2 percent of the population is directly employed in agriculture.[2]
Examples
| Page name | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
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| Wendell Berry | Poet Philosopher Farmer | ||||
| Jimmy Carter | 1 October 1924 | Author Politician Mariner Farmer | |||
| Michael Chomiak | 12 August 1905 | 1984 | Spook Soldier Editor Farmer | Nazi Editor in Chief turned Canadian farmer | |
| Dilawar | 1967 | 10 December 2002 | Driver Farmer | A taxi driver who was in the wrong place at the the wrong time. Tortured while in US custody and dead within the week. A leaked autopsy revealed "homicide", but the US authorities have not taken any action in this regard. | |
| Anthony Fitzherbert | January 1939 | UK | Academic Farmer | Institute for Statecraft member and former FAO Programme manager in Afghanistan who co-authored research on crop yields. | |
| John Gorton | 9 September 1911 | 19 May 2002 | Politician Farmer | ||
| Harry S. Truman | 8 May 1884 | 26 December 1972 | Politician Farmer | ||
| André Voisin | 7 January 1903 | 21 December 1964 | France | Chemist Farmer | French chemist who attended the first Bilderberg and two others. Died suddenly of a heart attack in Cuba |
