Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation

[MossRoad]

People can huff and puff until they are as blue in the faces as Smurfette...it's not going to change the fact that it is entirely an opinion whether a hay grower is really a farmer or not...

Just curious...what do you call a guy that owns no land...just a tractor, some implements and a truck and trailer...who only cuts and bales hay on other peoples land...?

The same thing I'd call a guy that leases land to plant corn. A farmer.

 

[MossRoad]

I believe the USDA and IRS calls him a farmer.

That right there settles it.

 

[MossRoad]

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What do you call a guy that owns a pipe wrench and a snake and fixes your plumbing, even though he doesn't own your house?

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John!

 

[/pine]

I believe the USDA and IRS calls him a farmer.

No they would call him a contractor...!
BTW...I think the IRS calls clam diggers "fishermen"...!

 

[kenmbz]

No they would call him a contractor...!
BTW...I think the IRS calls clam diggers "fishermen"...!

digging clams is hard work and they do live in seawater most of their lives.
Mussels are much easier.

 

[MossRoad]

digging clams is hard work and they do live in seawater most of their lives.
Mussels are much easier.

Clam digging builds muscles!

 

[lman]

No they would call him a contractor...!
BTW...I think the IRS calls clam diggers "fishermen"...!

Wouldn't a clam digger be a contractor then unless he owns the land where the clams are found?

 

[MossRoad]

I see two things here...

1. A person that does custom hay work for others, harvesting a customer's hay for that customer, for some agreed upon monetary amount and/or part of the hay, which they'll use or sell.

2. A person that leases land to grow hay on, for their own hay sales.

I know several people that do both. They are farmers.

 

[/pine]

Everybody has the right to their own opinions...!

 

[MossRoad]

Now I did work with a woman that had a custom haying business. She had two tractors, two bailers, wagons, etc...

She would harvest for other people, and keep half of the hay and sell it on the open market. I'm not sure I'd call her a farmer. But she was involved in agriculture.

However, Webster's Dictionary definition is:

a person who cultivates land or crops or raises animals (such as livestock or fish)

That's a pretty broad brush, so I'm gonna call her a farmer.