farmers

NOUN

person who produces crops, raises animals

Synonyms

STRONGEST

grower laborer peasant producer rancher

STRONG

agriculturalist agriculturist agronomist breeder clodhopper cob cropper cultivator feeder gardener gleaner harvester homesteader horticulturist planter plower reaper sharecropper sower tender tiller villein

WEAK

country person grazer hired hand

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farmers

Solar is exploding in the Central Valley as drought-stressed farmers look to alternatives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Local farmers have also poured in to help, working shifts to oversee a ballet of tractors pulling in tankers of water from a nearby lake.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Northern Hemisphere is entering harvest season, when farmers consume large quantities of diesel to run tractors and other machinery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

A group of more than a dozen farmers and residents used tractors to dig furrows in Stourbridge, helping to contain the huge fire there on Thursday.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

He told Hamilton that his Farewell Address was aimed especially at “the Yeomanry of the country,” which meant ordinary farmers working small plots of land and living in households.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis