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Introduction===A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmed land or might work as a labourer on land owned by others, but in advanced economies, a farme...
Grain merchants buy grain from farms and sell it to consumers. Between the buying and the selling, they are concerned with the quality, market value, shipping, processing, and storage of the grain. In effect, they are liaisons between the farmer and the eventual user or consumer of the grain. The regulation activities of the grain merchant create an efficient market for grain around the world. ...
Petrovskoye-Razumovskoye private estate in 1861 was redeemed into the treasury at the "highest command" for 250 thousand rubles, "with the aim of establishing an agronomic institute, farm and other agricultural institutions."In 1865, the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Forestry was opened, which was called Petrovskaya "in commemoration of Sovereign Peter the Great." Students called their "...
A husbandman in England in the medieval and early modern period was a free tenant farmer or small landowner. The social status of a husbandman was below that of a yeoman. The meaning of "husband" in this term is "master of house" rather than "married man". It has also been used to mean a practitioner of animal husbandry, or in perhaps more modern language, a rancher. For a farmer or grower in g...