
















| name | Farmer |
|---|---|
| official names | |
| type | Employment |
| activity sector | Agriculture |
| employment field | Market |
| related occupation | Rancher (U.S.), grazier (Australia) or stockman |
| average salary | $35,448 CAD (average) }} |
More distinct terms are commonly used to denote farmers who raise specific domesticated animals. For example, those who raise grazing livestock such as cattle, sheep, goats, and horses, are known as ''ranchers'' (U.S.), ''graziers'' (Australia & U.K.), or simply ''stockmen''. Sheep, goat, and cattle farmers might be also be referred to respectively as ''shepherds'', ''goatherds'', and ''cowherd''s. The term ''dairy farmer'' is applied to those engaged primarily in milk production, whether from cattle, goats, sheep, or other milk producing animals. A ''poultry farmer'' is one who concentrates on raising chickens, turkeys, ducks or geese, for either meat, egg, or feather production, or commonly, all three. A person who raises a variety of vegetables for market may be called a ''truck farmer'' or ''market gardener''. ''Dirt farmer'' is an American colloquial term for a practical farmer, or one who farms his own land.
In the context of developing nations or other pre-industrial cultures, most farmers practice a meager subsistence agriculture—a simple organic farming system employing crop rotation, seed saving, slash and burn or other techniques to maximize efficiency while meeting the needs of the household or community. In developed nations however, a person using such techniques on small patches of land might be called a gardener and be considered a hobbyist. Alternatively, one may be driven into such practices by poverty or, ironically—against the background of large-scale agribusiness--may become an organic farmer growing for discerning consumers in the local food market. Historically, one subsisting in this way may have been known as a ''peasant''.
In developed nations, a farmer (as a profession) is usually defined as someone with an ownership interest in crops or livestock, and who provides land or management in their production. Those who provide only labor are most often called ''farmhands''. Alternatively, growers who manage farmland for an absentee landowner, sharing the harvest (or its profits) are known as ''sharecroppers'' or ''sharefarmers''. In the context of agribusiness, a farmer is defined broadly, and thus many individuals not necessarily engaged in full-time farming can nonetheless legally qualify under agricultural policy for various subsidies, incentives, and tax deductions.
Farmers are often members of local, regional or national farmers' unions or agricultural producers' organizations and can exert significant political influence. The Grange movement in the United States was effective in advancing farmers' agendas, especially against railroad and agribusiness interests early in the 20th century . The FNSEA is very politically active in France, especially pertaining to genetically modified food. Agricultural producers, both small and large, are represented globally by the International Federation of Agriculture Producers (IFAP), representing over 600 million farmers through 120 national farmers' unions in 79 countries.
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Born in Canada and brought up in Birmingham she originally studied photography at the London College of Printing but switched to cinematography. She first achieved widespread recognition for her 1987'' Home from the Hill'' documentary about retired Colonel Hilary Hook's return to the UK from Africa.
Other notable documentaries include ''The Heart of the Angel'', an edition of ''Cutting Edge'', ''The Ark'', ''In the Company of Men'' (about a company of the Welsh Guards regiment of the British Army), ''Tony Blair'' (a short profile of the Prime Minister produced as a party political broadcast and screened on all four channels for the general election campaign in 1997) and ''Geri'' (about Geri Halliwell filmed shortly after she left The Spice Girls) and The Lord's Tale, about the hereditary lords losing their seats in the Lords due to the House of Lords Act 1999.
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Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of ''The Solari Report'', managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC., and a supporter of the 9/11 Truth movement.
Fitts has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the Wharton School and studied Mandarin at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She publishes a column, "Mapping the Real Deal," in ''Scoop'' in New Zealand.
Fitts signed a statement released by the organization 9/11 Truth in 2004 that calls for a new investigation into the September 11 attacks. She confirmed her support for the statement in 2009.
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