farm hand
Rural hired laborer
A farm hand is a worker hired to do manual labor on a farm—feeding livestock, mending fences, operating equipment, harvesting crops.
The term suggests someone employed rather than owning the operation: The ranch employed three farm hands during calving season.
Also spelled farmhand.
Given employment
- seasonalRecurring at fixed intervals
- migrantOne who relocates
- tenantOne who rents property
- sharecropperFarmer paying rent in crops
worker · laborer · crew · help · staff · payroll · wages · board
Research conducted on location
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- cultivatingDeliberately developing or tending
irrigating · mowing · baling · weeding · tilling · milking · fencing · scything
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- goatsHorned farm ruminants
- pigsDomesticated farm swine
- chickensDomestic fowl for eggs
ducks · geese · herding · milking · feeding · breeding · calving · lambing
Cultivated plants for harvest
- harvestGathering mature crops
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- acreageAmount of land owned
husbandry · agronomy · horticulture · produce · orchard · vineyard · seedtime · growing
hired
Given employment
sharecropper · worker · laborer · crew · help · staff · payroll · wages · board · lodging
fieldwork
Research conducted on location
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
cultivating · irrigating · mowing · baling · weeding · tilling · milking · fencing · scything · chores
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
chickens · ducks · geese · herding · milking · feeding · breeding · calving · lambing · shearing
crops
Cultivated plants for harvest
acreage · husbandry · agronomy · horticulture · produce · orchard · vineyard · seedtime · growing · cultivation
countryside
Rural area beyond towns
barnyard · granary · farmstead · bucolic · agrarian · ranch · smallholding · acreage · outbuildings · silo
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- manual laborlifting, carrying, shoveling, loading, unloading
- blue-collar jobsfactory work, factory worker, factory workers, construction, miners
- farm jobsfarmhands, farmworkers, field workers, farmhand, harvester
- farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, fieldworker, migrant worker, harvester
- hourly jobshourly worker, day laborer, fast food worker, laborer, part-timer