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Farmer
* Many farmers already produce biomass energy by growing corn to make ethanol
  - also have livestock
* Many farmers apply nitrogen as fertilizers or manures to their crops
  - during the fall and spring rather than during the growing season
* Many farmers are subsistence farmers although there are also some large agricultural companies
  - too weak from hunger to harvest crops or plant seeds
* Many farmers believe that badgers are responsible for spreading the disease
  - tillage also helps reduce disease problems
  - burn the straw and cause air pollution all around the world
* Many farmers give alcohol to hypothermic calves in an effort to speed recovery
  - their lambs names at birth, just as pet owners do
  - have fields abutting watercourses that are permanent or rough pasture
  - keep beehives on their farms to ensure the pollination of their crops
  - make use of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria in legumes to enrich their fields
* Many farmers now employ management practices that encourage the presence of waterfowl on their land
  - raise only pigs, poultry or horses, or produce eggs exclusively
  - perserve and build wetlands around their farms to help keep our water clean
  - produce crops year-round with irrigation systems
  - raising livestock grow it as winter feed
  - rely on groundwater for drinking water, for watering stock and for irrigation
  - store grain because they believe they can do better than selling at harvest time
  - supplement grass feed with hay and silage, particularly in winter
* Many farmers use crop rotations to help in weed control, which decrease pesticide use
  - growing methods that are safer for the environment and human health
  - irrigation systems to spray salt water over the oysters
  - ladybugs as pest control
  - pesticides
  - the straw from oats as bedding for their livestock
  - view their relationship with natural resources as one of stewardship
* Most farmers add some form of synthetic fertilizer to their fields every year
  - also raise cattle, goats, sheep, and chickens
* Most farmers are concerned about the effects of weeds on crop yields
  - independent producers who contract for feed, pullets, and other inputs
  - poor, with small landholdings
  - believe that corn grows best when the nights are hot
  - burn their crop residues prior to cultivation
  - care for animals
  - control chickens
  - deplete the supply of natural gas and petroleum to make fertilizers and pesticides
  - do know if they are using oil or water-based pesticides
  - drive horses
* Most farmers feed animals
  - mammals
  - give animals antibiotics when they are ill
* Most farmers grow food
  - vegetables
  - harvest forages mechanically
* Most farmers have a standard set of diets for their farms
  - land that has been in production for many years
  - large farms
  - low income and poor access to credit, inputs, and modern technologies
  - small farms
* Most farmers keep animals
  - cows
  - dogs
  - records of the amount and quality of milk produced by each cow
  - roosters
  - kill aphids
  - know plant certain plants
  - own mammals
  - participate in communities
  - possess animals
  - practice organic cultivation and natural living
  - produce sustainable food
  - provide water to calves at the same time they begin feeding calf starter
* Most farmers raise animals
  - livestock because they like working with animals
  - sheep for wool, meat, and skins, and cattle for dairy products
* Most farmers rely on irrigation
  - spend their lives praying for rain
* Most farmers still keep horses and some breed horses exclusively, often keeping hundreds at a time
  - live on the income generated mainly from rice and a number of other crops
  - use kerosene lamps and burn wood for fuel, which exacerbates pollution
  - track pests with records and many map their fields for weed and pest problems
* Most farmers use chemical fertilizer
  - chemicals to kill bugs and grow crops
  - corn or soybean meal as the main ingredient in a pig diet
  - hand labor to do all their work
  - natural pesticide
  - pesticides to increase crop yields and values
* Most farmers work fields
  - in areas
* Some farmers actually collect the methane from fermenting animal and farm wastes.
* Some farmers also breed registered draft stock
  - sheep, horses, turkeys, geese
  - consider the fruit-eaters to be agricultural pests
  - grow corn, primarily for silage
  - keep a few animals such as cattle and goats, and many raise poultry
* Some farmers also raise animals to be used for meat , milk , eggs or other things
  - sheep, goats, and camels
* Some farmers also use chemical fertilizers and pesticides to yield bigger crops with fewer losses
  - mulching as a method of burial
  - are under the mistaken belief that possessing banned pesticides is illegal
  - breed cattle, along with a few sheep, goats, ducks, geese, and turkeys
  - buy animals
* Some farmers control animals
  - bees
  - foxes
  - squirrels
  - die over years
* Some farmers drive animals
* Some farmers eat grasshoppers
  - moths
* Some farmers feed cats
  - their animals bananas and plantains
  - figure they can make money on the margin of their production
* Some farmers have interest in contract raising, such as poultry, swine, beef or heifers
  - markets
* Some farmers keep antelopes
  - birds
* Some farmers kill animals
  - cheetahs
  - deer
  - jaguars
  - prairie dogs
  - pythons
  - rabbits
  - like to keep their horses in fields where they have plenty of green grass to eat
  - literally vacuum the crops of insect pests rather than use chemical sprays
  - lose livestock due to coyote predation
  - love animals
  - make silage of the stalks after the ears are picked or the grain is harvested
  - move animals
  - own animals
  - periodically change the crops they grow in fields in order to keep the soil healthy
  - plant weeds
  - prevent fire
  - protect livestock
* Some farmers raise bees
  - cattle, hogs, poultry, and sheep
  - chickens or pigs or cattle, which they sell
  - crops for human or animal consumption
  - fish in ponds
  - healthy hogs, whose waste is considered a resource
  - ponies
  - release animals
  - report that mold levels in baled hay are causing problems when hay is fed to livestock
  - save animals
* Some farmers sell animals
  - their produce directly to consumers at roadside stands
* Some farmers shoot animals
  - coyotes
  - eagles for eating red grouse and frightening the grouse
  - spend exorbitant amounts of money to control the population
  - still plant their seeds by the light of the full moon to ensure a healthy harvest
  - supply meat, eggs, and dairy products directly to the consumers
  - think their fields can only turn a profit when planted to houses
  - treat animals
* Some farmers use chemical sprays to control diseases and insects
  - electric motors for lifting water, and tractors for ploughing land
  - forestland to grow cash crops, such as coffee or pineapples
  - groundwater to irrigate crops
  - live plants to intercrop with their staples to suppress weeds
  - sheep to keep ground clear once trees are big enough
  - tranquillisers to keep animals calm
  - trees and shrubs to preserve livestock products such as milk
  - work primarily with crops and vegetables
* Some farmers work with dogs
* accept explanations.
* actually build bat houses around their crops to attract bats.
* add compost
* adopt new techniques
* also add salt and vitamins to a pig diet
  - breed and feed hogs and cattle
  - burn their pastures for agricultural purposes, which destroys licuri palm trees
  - can help birds by allowing biologists access to their land for bird research
  - employ human labor to cut weeds
  - enrich soil, plant trees and put out bush fires
* also grow beans and groundnuts, which are used to make sauces or stews
  - crops such as maize, millet, rice, peanuts, and beans
  - lentils in India, Iran, and Turkey
  - root crops, such as turnips and potatoes
  - teff, a grain that is common only in Eritrea and Ethiopia
  - has a different labor mix
* also have lower risks for cancers of the lung, esophagus, bladder, colon, liver, and kidney
  - machinery and trucks that run on gasoline
  - perform painful branding, dehorning, and castration on cattle without anesthesia
  - raise pigs and cattle
  - tend herds of sheep, cattle, and long haired oxen
  - treat their cats, dogs, horses, cattle, and birds homeopathically
  - try to keep healthy plants away from contaminated farm and processing tools
* also use biotechnology to help plants survive
  - cadmium laced fertilizers for their crops
  - copper to spray vegetables and grains to prevent fungus and algae growth
  - cows to get beef for steaks and hamburger
  - propane to dry crops, power tractors and warm greenhouses
* appear to have an increased risk of brain cancer.
* are among the first environmentalists or conservationists
  - persons with high rates of melanoma
  - at high risk to respiratory health hazards
  - born weighing more than seven pounds
* are business people and are involved in their communities
* are capable of farm lands
  - growing the maximum amount of crop in a minimum amount of space
  - seed plants
  - water plants
  - caretakers of their land
  - conservationists by nature
  - creators
  - economic actors and capable of making choices
  - fisherman-farmers, compared to Vikings for their courage and sea skill
  - full-time businesspeople who always are concerned with the bottom line
  - good stewards of the land and care about the environment
  - highly sensitive to insulin
  - important all over the world
  - in conflict with animals that eat their crops
* are independent people
  - thinkers as well as independent business operators
  - individuals - used to being on their own
  - interested in the weather because our livelihoods depend on it
  - located in fairgrounds
  - more religious than city people because they go to church and pray for rain
  - most vulnerable to injury when they are tired, hurried, or complacent about safety
  - particularly vulnerable when there surplus of the products they produce
  - probably most familiar with prices for inputs they use and commodities they produce
  - prone to an increased incidence of arthritis
  - property-rich, of course, because they hold land
  - responsible for every agricultural product that leaves their farms
* are responsible for feeding a rapidly growing world population
  - and clothing people
  - tending the fields, as well as raising the animals
  - self-sufficient, independent kind of people
  - small scale household based cultivators
  - stewards of the land Each year billions of trees are seeded on farmland
  - successful economically, environmentally, socially, and politically
  - the adopters, the adapters, and often the innovators of new farming techniques
* are the first environmentalists
  - to be affected by pollution from farm-derived substances
  - hardest working people in America, and are pillars of their communities
  - largest occupational group among suicides in Powys
  - main actors in food production yet they are continually crippled by poverty
  - most important people in the world
  - primary stewards of the American landscape
* are twice as likely to kill themselves as other men of the same age
  - themselves compared with others of the same age
  - live in poverty as members of the general population
* avoid prisons.
* benefit from ecosystem services
  - have experience
* breed livestock like sheep, goats, cattle and asses.
* bring crops
* burn and destroy wild vegetation to grow crops.
* buy hens
* can also adjust the diet of livestock to reduce methane emissions
  - grow fiber crops, such as kenaf, for paper
  - sell their oysters before the onset of winter
  - avoid harm to the environment
  - benefit from growing a succession of flowering plants throughout summer
  - count on snow in winter a lot more than they can count on rain in spring or summer
  - even spray at night when there's less wind
* can grow algae simultaneously with their crops
  - beans on land and in climates that are also good for corn
  - crops in parts of the wetter savanna
* can help prevent water erosion by plowing across a slope instead of up and down it
  - to prevent nitrogen pollution by contour plowing
  - leave strips of land untilled, to act as a catch for water-borne erosion
  - lose huge amounts of planted crops and stored grains to rodents
  - make terraces to keep the soil in place
  - open their land to hunters to reduce the number of deer on their property
  - plant seeds that are modified to resist the effects of glufosinate
  - prevent pollution by sound tillage practices and handling of pesticides and fertilizers
  - protect their soil from erosion in several ways
  - reduce the use of pesticides and depend more on organic farming methods
  - save moisture by growing fences
  - sequester carbon through the use of conservation tillage techniques
  - store or sequester carbon in their soil
* can use a series of factors to determine the health of their soil
  - temperature to help predict the abundance of certain pests
* can, therefore, play an important role in countryside management as environmental stewards.
* care deeply for the health and welfare of their animals
* choose options
  - their careers in livestock management because they have a love for animals
* claim damage.
* collectively manage their land and crops.
* commonly use penicillin, tetracyclines, erythromycin and others.
* consciously estimate the likelihood of drought, hail, storms, etc.
* consider cost
  - nuisances
* continue to play a key role in maintaining biological diversity.
  - erosion by using cover crops to stabilize the soil during winter rains
  - horn flies based on the husbandry and production practice of their region
  - rabbit populations directly by poisoning, trapping, and destroying warrens
  - weeds in crops because they reduce crop yield
* cultivate the land, which form of dominion over the land.
* deal with one of the very few areas of renewable resources available to mankind.
* depend on bees and other pollinators for the health and abundance of many of their crops
  - pesticides, including herbicides, to increase crop yields
  - pollinator populations for their livelihood
* depend on rain to nourish crops, but too much rain can actually harm crop production
  - water for their crops
  - their animals for milk and for offspring that are raised for meat
  - upon the earth year after year for their livelihoods
* develop methods.
* drink milk.
* encounter animals.
* engage in production.
* enter markets.
* experience crops.
* express thoughts.
* face issues
  - tough issues
* facing the most desperate hardship are grain and seed producers.
* find methods
* focus on strategies.
* frequently use tractors for all types of logging work on farms.
* get crops
  - goods
  - results
  - rights
* go to towns.
* grow a large number of crops
  - cash crops to sell to developed countries
* grow crops in irrigated oases along rivers
  - that food comes from
  - enough food
  - goods that are shipped all over the world
  - grain crops mostly as openly marketed commodities
  - hundreds of varieties of fruits, vegetables, and flowers and nursery crops
  - lettuce seeds
  - plants for their own use as well as selling to their friends and neighbors
  - rice in the rainy season
  - seedlings
  - substance crops to feed their family as well as to sell for cash
  - two types of oats, spring oats and winter oats
  - wheat
* handle certain pesticide
* harvest melons.
* have a higher than average rate of hearing loss
  - lower incidence of cancer than does the general population
  - responsibility to provide agricultural products and to protect natural resources
  - acres
  - actual knowledge
  - alternatives
  - an important role to play in the conservation of monarch butterflies
  - big butts, hips and thighs and a narrow waist
  - break legs
  - businesses with small profit margins
  - contact
  - different strategies
  - employees
  - exposure
  - fields of crops that they grow and take care of
  - heads
  - higher cancer rates than the rest of the population, and pesticides are suspected
  - ideas
  - impact
  - little impact
  - obligation
  - operations
  - other options
  - sea cows
* have the highest rate of prostrate cancer
  - right to sell live animals to anyone
* help cows.
* historically belong to two basic types of organizations.
* improve conditions
  - environmental conditions
  - productivity
  - survival
  - water quality
* includes arms
  - body substances
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - human bodies
  - material bodies
  - necks
  - nuclei
  - personality
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* introduce types.
  - house cats around for mouse control in barns
  - elephants whenever possible because they trample their crops and destroy villages
  - rabbits to protect crops
* know certain plants
  - crop plants
  - how to put fat on their hogs, cows and poultry
  - that in waterlogged soils the bacteria are less productive
* like animals
* like to farm
  - plant beside rivers, where water is abundant
* live in areas that can support farming, and everyone else forager.
* look at fields.
* look to aquaculture as a means of economic stability through farm diversification
  - the soil to provide the necessary nutrients to grow their crops
* maintain productivity.
* make crops
  - final decisions
  - progress
  - significant progress
  - up approximately one-third of Mexico's population
  - wheat crops
* monitor weather patterns and check global market prices on the Internet.
* move to locations.
* need education
  - regulations
  - to crops
* now fish where they once raised crops
  - give pigs phytase supplements in their food, but it's expensive and difficult to store
  - plant crops and retain profits on practically all land, and pay taxes on what they earn
  - rely on tourism and rural recreation for much of their income
* offer products.
* often add waste substances to livestock and poultry feed
  - allow live fences to grow tall and serve as wind breaks to protect cropland
  - believe that insects are the main constraints to high yields
  - feed excessive levels of minerals hoping to improve reproductive performance
  - give their animals objects like tires to enrich their environment
  - grow alfalfa, clover, or bean plants in fields after they have grown a grain crop
  - have to use chemical insecticides to save their plants
  - keep high pregnant ewes, ewes with young lambs and winterlambs at the same time
  - kill elephants because they trample their crops and destroy villages
  - leave crop residue on the surface to cover the ground between growing seasons
  - practice crop rotation to help enrich agricultural fields
  - rely on using an assortment of chemical inputs to control pests
  - rent colonies of bees to pollinate their crops
  - say that the best way to protect farmland is to ensure that farming is profitable
* often use fertilisers to boost the productivity of the land
  - tractors in cultivating their crops
* operate and maintain heavy-duty equipment and machinery.
* own cattle
  - careful attention
* plant fields.
* plow and plant corn during the dry season when the soil is loose and easy to turn.
* pride themselves in producing high quality, healthy food products.
* produce coffee crops
  - food to make it possible for everyone else to survive
  - food, other business people process and market food
  - pork
  - stone fruit crops
* promote growth.
* protect their animals from severe weather and wild animals.
* provide care
  - habitat for birds in their irrigated fields
  - nests for owls on the perimeter of their property
  - buffaloes, cows, goats, hogs, horses, and poultry
  - cattle for meat and for dairy products
  - cattle, oxen, goats, and camels for food, export, and transport
  - chickens for meat and eggs
  - emes for their meat, feathers and hide
  - livestock in the plains and in irrigated desert areas
  - livestock, poultry, dairy cattle, small grains, corn and forage
  - such animals as cattle, sheep, goats, horses, pigs, and chickens
* receive subsidies for rearing sheep on the basis of how many animals they own.
* recently use a larger amount of artificial fertilizers and agricultural chemicals.
* reduce erosion.
* regularly fertilize with nitrogen to replace nutrients that crops take from the soil.
  - pesticides to protect potato crops from a multitude of pests
* remove their calves' testicles to reduce aggressiveness in male animals as they mature.
* report customers.
* respond to policy.
* return to fallow fields
* risk their health to use pesticides on crops.
* routinely feed animals the same types of antibiotics used by humans
  - stay up all night to help sows deliver piglets or to tend to newborn calves
* run their own businesses, owning or renting land.
* see native plants
* select crops according to the ecosystems in which they produce.
* smoke less and are more active than most people
  - less, drink less, and are more active than most other adults
* sometimes build near a water source, so when it floods their good rich soil is washed away
  - make large silt traps to harvest soil
  - try to kill leopards and tigers that visit their farm
  - use pyres to destroy the bodies of dead animals
* spend millions of dollars each year combating weeds in their fields
  - their lives clearing the land to grow crops
* still collect large quantities of various wild edible plants from natural habitats
  - plant by hand and use animal plows
* store anhydrous ammonia as a liquid under pressure in large tanks in their fields.
* suffer damage
  - extensive damage
* sustain billions of dollars in weather-related crop losses each year.
* take precaution
  - safety precaution
* tend to be conservative in all civilizations
  - spray chemicals to help the plants grow or kill weeds and usually spray too much
  - use several pesticides to get rid of caterpillars
* think in terms of fields worth of food.
* to learn skills.
* to make decisions
  - difficult decisions
  - inform decisions
  - produce milk
  - share information
* to use efficient techniques
  - farm techniques
* to use new farm techniques
  - pollination techniques
  - sensitive methods
  - soil conservation methods
* traditionally apply herbicides to entire fields before planting or before weeds emerge
  - plant their fields using seeds saved from their previous year's crop
* treat mastitis with antibiotics
  - potential problems
* typically grow their own food for their cattle
  - slaughter infected animals and other animals exposed to infection
  - use a variety of herbicides to control weeds in corn and soybeans
* use a lot of fertilizer to make sure their crops grow well
  - variety of water-conserving technology to grow food and save water
  - fertilizers to improve the soil
  - coconut palm fronds as a way to keep the moisture in the ground around the taro plants
  - combines to harvest their grain sorghum
  - compost for enhancing crops and for sod farms
* use computers for breeding, bookkeeping, and individual lifetime animal records
  - to feed their animals and monitor milk weights, fat content, etc
  - cows to get milk to drink on the farm and also to sell
  - fences to keep out unwanted animals
  - goats to give milk which can be made into milk to drink as well as cheese
  - herbicides to control weeds that choke food crops
  - hoes
  - horses to do work
  - insecticides to manage insect pests
  - intensive techniques
  - it as fertilizer because nitrates in the sludge replenish soils depleted by crops
* use large amounts of fossil fuels
  - quantities of anhydrous ammonia as a fertilizer
  - machines
  - medications to help keep their animals healthy
  - metal tractors and combines to plant and harvest crops
  - millions of pounds of pesticides and millions of tons of fertilizers
* use natural fertilizer
  - pesticides to keep insects from eating crops
  - phosphate fertilizer
  - pickup trucks
  - plastic as a covering to create a greenhouse
  - propane to dry crops, brood chickens, power tractors, and warm greenhouses
  - pulleys to lift bales of hay and bags of grain
  - renewable technology
  - same ideas
  - seaweed as livestock feed or fertilizer
  - selective breeding to produce animals that are muscular and lean
  - soil, water, and sun to grow crops
  - the infrared photos of their fields to measure vegetation density and crop quality
  - treatments
  - wetlands as grazing areas or hay crops
  - working dogs on their farms to look out for mice and rats and herd sheep and cows
* using organic techniques are a small minority in American agriculture
  - pesticides have an increase in profits
* usually like to live in a private home near the fields where they work
  - operate chains and tractors to pull out equipment that has become stuck
  - specialize in one type of crop or animal, though some raise both
  - store liquid manure in pits, slurry storage tanks or lagoons
* utilize techniques.
* wear hats
  - straw hats
* work fields and backyard-gardeners plant vegetables and herbs
  - hard to protect their livestock
  - paddy fields
* work with chinese traders
* worldwide are essential to our livelihood.
+ Farmer, What farmers do: Occupations :: Agriculture
+ Farming, Overview, Agriculture techniques
  * Farmers select plants with better yield, taste, and nutritional value. They also choose plants that are more resistant to disease, more tolerant to drought, and easier to harvest. Centuries of careful selection and breeding have had enormous effects on the characteristics of crop plants.
+ Pyre, Other uses for pyres: Death customs :: Fire :: Buildings and structures
  * Farmers sometimes use pyres to destroy the bodies of dead animals. They especially use them when the animals have died of a disease. This helps prevent the spread of the disease to other animals.