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Agricultural Labourer & Farmworkers=aka "Ag Lab"Most of us will have an ancestor who worked as an agricultural labourer at some point. In fact, the 1851 census records 1,460,896 people working as an “ag lab”, farm servant or shepherd – more than in any other field of employment. Only in 1871 did domestic service overtake it to the top spot.Before the Industrial Revolution, in the late 18th and ...
Farmers – Small Acreage Landowners * Family Farm* Usually under one thousand acres and less . * Not for large business type operations Smallholding A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model.[1] Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or small-scale farm, including factors such as size, food production technique or technology...