Farmer

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.

Career

Career Progression

Not every farm is alike; there are a vast range of goods produced by farmers of different sorts, and nearly all farms focus on just one product or a limited group of products. Specializations 1 Rancher: Raised animals for slaughter most likely for food, but also for leather, furs, and other useful materials. 2 Grazier: Harvest goods produced by animals such as milk, eggs, feathers, or wool. 3 Stockman: Bred animals to sell for work or as pets such as guard dogs, racing horses, and griffons. 4 Peasant: Harvest edible or useful plants such as wheat, corn crops, or apples at an orchard. 5 Forester: Grow trees for ornament or construction such as trees grown for bow staves, boat masts, or buildings. 6 Silk Farmer: Raise silk worms or another exotic animal, and harvest their silk.

Payment & Reimbursement

Farmed products might be sold either to a market, in a farmers' market, or directly from a farm. In a subsistence economy, farm products might to some extent be either consumed by the farmer's family or pooled by the community.

Perception

Purpose

Farmers focus on raising living things and harvesting various useful goods–mostly food–from the land. Farmers make up the vast majority of the peasantry, alongside other raw resource producers, such as miners and fishermen. Farmers are a hearty, enduring folk, they work long hours under the sun often doing dirty and exhausting or even disgusting work. A 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.

Social Status

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. One subsisting in this way may become labelled as a peasant, often associated disparagingly with a "peasant mentality". 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 might be driven into such practices by poverty or, ironically—against the background of large-scale agribusiness—might become an organic farmer growing for discerning/faddish consumers in the local food market.

Operations

Tools

A farm implement (such as a pitchfork or shovel), a set of work clothes or common clothes, a wide brimmed hat, a sack containing 5 gold pieces worth of trade goods, and a belt pouch containing 5 gold pieces.

Provided Services

Many work on a lord's estate, their land, or you work for a company, and produce resources from the land in return for food, shelter, clothing, protection, and other benefits.

Dangers & Hazards

There are several occupational hazards for those in agriculture; farming is a particularly dangerous industry. Farmers can encounter and be stung or bitten by dangerous insects and other arthropods, including scorpions, fire ants, bees, wasps and hornets. Farmers also work around heavy machinery which can kill or injure them. Farmers can also establish muscle and joints pains from repeated work.

Type

Agricultural / Fishing / Forestry