tobacco farmer
Cultivates smoking plants
A tobacco farmer is someone who cultivates tobacco plants commercially, typically for sale to cigarette manufacturers or other tobacco processors.
The term carries regional associations with the American South, where tobacco farming shaped both the economy and landscape for centuries: His family had been tobacco farmers in North Carolina for five generations.
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- curingRestoring health or preserving
- leafPlant's photosynthetic organ
- harvestGathering mature crops
- burleyLight air-cured tobacco
Virginia · crop · cash crop · sharecropper · barn · drying · auction · seedbed · growing season · topping · suckering · hoe · fertile · humid · sweat · fields · nicotine · soil
- 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
- colonistscolonists, settler, Pilgrims, colonials, colonist
- North CaroliniansAndrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, James K. Polk, Billy Graham, Michael Jordan
tobacco farmerwheat farmer
One who cultivates cereals
corn farmer · rice farmer · vegetable farmer · subsistence farmer · organic farmer
tobacco, farmer, tobaccos, tobacconist, farm, farms, farmed, farming, farmland