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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...
This project aims to collect profiles of Finnish agricultural professionals. It serves as an "umbrella project" under which various types of profiles can be added; Agricultural advisors and consultants Graduates of "agrologist and agronomist programs" --> higher education Officials working in agricultural administration Other individuals significantly involved in agricultural developm...
Please add profiles of individuals who worked at the Department of Agriculture to this project. Secretaries of Agriculture should NOT be added here as they have a separate project: US Secretary of Agriculture . The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock fo...
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...
The United States secretary of agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The position carries similar responsibilities to those of agriculture ministers in other governments The department includes several organizations. The 297,000 mi2 (770,000 km2) of national forests and grasslands are managed by the United States Forest Service. The safety of food produced and...
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 "...