Agricultural occupations Agricultural occupations Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin apis, a bee) is the practice of intentional maintenance of honeybee hives by humans. A beekeeper may keep bees in order to collect honey and beeswax, or for the purpose of pollinating crops, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers. A location where bees are kept is called an apiary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beekeeping"
In agriculture and in the hobby of animal fancy, a breeder is an individual animal used for selective breeding. Usually a breeder is a purebred animal bred with the intent of producing purebred or even show-quality animals. However, in some cases, a breeding animal is crossbred with another breed or a mixed breed with the intent of combining aspects of two or more different breeds. by Savannah ...more on Wikipedia about "Breeder (animal)"
A chicken sexer is a person who has been specially trained to determine the sex of chicken hatchlings. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chicken sexer"
A cowboy ( Spanish vaquero) tends cattle and horses on cattle ranches in North and South America. The cowboy is in charge of the horses, as is the wrangler. In addition to ranch work, some cowboys work in and participate in rodeos, and many cowboys work only in the rodeo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cowboy"
A Drover in Australia is a person who takes cattle over long distances, usually during a drought in search of green pastures on which the cattle can feed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Drover (Australian)"
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A farmer is a person who is engaged in agrarian business by using land. The term farmer usually applies to a person who grows field crops, or has orchards, vineyards or market gardens with a view to selling to others as food. They may, however, provide raw materials for industrial purposes, such as cereals for alcoholic beverages, fruit for juices, hides for leather, and wool or flax for yarns and cloth-making. Farmers may also be involved in rearing cattle for meat or milk. A farmer engaged in large-scale cattle raising for meat is usually referred to as a rancher, grazier or stockman. The term dairy farmer is applied to those engaged milk production. A poultry farmer is one who concentrates on raising chickens, turkeys, domesticated ducks and geese, or is involved in egg production. A person who raises a variety of vegetables for market may be called a truck farmer or market gardener. Many North American farmers prefer to be referred to as growers due to negative stereotypes associated with the former term. ...more on Wikipedia about "Farmer" The article you are reading is from shortopedia
A forester is a person who is engaged in forestry by creating and managing forests. ...more on Wikipedia about "Forester"
A fruit bum was a migrant agricultural worker who traveled illegally on freight trains between fruit orchards. Fruit bums were generally found in California during the first half of the 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fruit bum"
A gaucho is a South American cattle herder — the equivalent to the North American " cowboy" — on the pampas, chacos or Patagonian grasslands found in parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil (spelt "gaúcho" in Portuguese). Like the word cowboy, llanero of the Venezuelan llanos, or the Mexican vaquero, the term often connotes the 19th century more than the present day, when gauchos made up the majority of the population. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gaucho"
A Grazier is an Australian farmer who owns and lives on a large-sized rural property called a Sheep station or a Cattle station. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grazier (Australian agriculture)"
Hayward, or " hedge warden", was an occupation in the Middle Ages, now defunct. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hayward (profession)"
A herder is a worker who lives a semi- nomadic life, caring for various domestic animals, especially in places where these animals wander unfenced pasture lands. Because their work is necessarily mostly outdoors, they move around from place to place in the course of their labours, and the lands upon which their beasts graze are seldom claimed as any single person's property, a number of romantic legends have sprung up around their way of life. Some herders whose lifestyles have become mainstays of fiction include: ...more on Wikipedia about "Herder"
A knacker is a person in the trade of rendering animals that are unfit for human consumption, such as work horses that have died in harness or are too tired to work any more. This leads to the slang expression "knackered" meaning very tired. The word is probably of Scandinavian origin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Knacker" You are visiting http://www.shortopedia.com
A Llanero or the Llaneros is the name given to Venezuelan and Colombia cowboy and means "plainsmen." The Llanero take their name from the Llanos grasslands occupying western Venezuela and northeastern Colombia. The Llanero were originally part Spanish and Indian and have a strong culture including a distinctive form of music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Llanero"
Onion Johnny is the nickname given to the French farmers and agricultural labourers that sell distinctive pink onions door-to-door in England, Wales and Scotland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Onion Johnny"
Pastoralists are people whose main source of livelihood is livestock with which they move seasonally in search of fresh pasture and water. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pastoralist"
Remença was a Catalan mode of serfdom; the equivalent Spanish word is remensa. Those who were serfs under this mode are properly ...more on Wikipedia about "Remença"
A stockman is the name given to a person who looks after the livestock on a station. Trainee stockmen are known as "jackaroos" and "jillaroos". Stockmen traditionally rode horses for livestock maintenance and mustering, but motorised vehicles are increasingly used. Station employees, including stockmen, who work at a number of different occupations within their work, are also known as 'station hands'. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stockman"
In North America a wrangler is someone employed to handle animals professionally, especially horses, but also others. At least one movie has credited a ' cockroach wrangler' . ...more on Wikipedia about "Wrangler (profession)"
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