cotton farmer
Cultivates fiber crops
A cotton farmer is someone who cultivates cotton as a crop, typically on a large scale.
Cotton farming has historically been associated with the American South, where it shaped regional economy and culture.
The term applies broadly to anyone growing cotton commercially, from small landholders to operators of industrial agricultural operations: Third-generation cotton farmers in Texas are struggling with drought.
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- harvestGathering mature crops
- bollPlant seed pod
- boll weevilBeetle infesting cotton plants
- ginCotton-cleaning machine
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- farm workersfarmworker, hired hand, field hand, farmhand, harvester
- farmersgrower, smallholder, cultivator, rancher, homesteader
- farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, field hand, fieldworker, hired hand
- growersfarmers, cultivators, grower, apple grower, coffee grower
- cottonboll, cottonseed, fiber, gin, ginning
- Outback Jobsdrover, stockman, jackaroo, ringer, musterer
cotton farmerrancher
One who raises livestock
cattle rancher · dairy farmer · pig farmer · fisherman · sheep rancher
cotton farmercotton picker
Device harvesting fiber bolls
field hand · sharecropper · plantation slave · tenant farmer
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