farmhands

Hired harvest helpers

Farmhands are workers hired to do manual labor on a farm—tending livestock, operating equipment, harvesting crops.

The term suggests physical, often seasonal work rather than farm ownership or management: The ranch employed a dozen farmhands during harvest season.

labor

wages

Payment for work

crew · foreman · overseer · toil · dawn · manual · backbreaking · sunup · calluses · hardworking

setting

barn

Agricultural storage structure

silo · windmill · haystack · granary · orchard · vineyard · cropland · pasture · bunkhouse · country

tasks

plowing

Turning earth for crops

milking · herding · feeding · mucking · baling · fencing · irrigation · weeding · pruning · shearing

livestock

cattle

Domesticated bovines kept commercially

  • sheepWoolly farm animal
  • goatsHorned farm ruminants
  • pigsDomesticated farm swine

horses · chickens · ducks · geese · dairy · pasture · barnyard · stables · feedlot · ranching

Categories
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ownership/employment status

farmhandslandowners

Holders of real property

landlords · plantation owners · landholders · employers · farmers

work environment/setting

farmhandsfactory workers

Employees in manufacturing facilities

office workers · industrial workers · white-collar workers · executives · corporate employees

Family

farmhand

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