Farmer (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Farmer can mean:
- Farmer, a person who grows then harvests food.
- Gold farmer, a person who "farms" in-game currency and items in a massively multiplayer online game to sell for (real world) money.
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 (NATO reporting name: Farmer), a Soviet fighter aircraft.
- Shenyang J-6 (NATO reporting name: Farmer), the Chinese variant of the MiG-19.
Farmer or farmers may also refer to:
In business:
- Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, "Farmer Mac", a source for agricultural loans and mortgages. Farmer Mac was chartered by the United States government and remains affiliated, though it is private stockholder-owned.
- Farmers Insurance, an insurance carrier in the United States.
- Farmers Weekly, a magazine covering British agriculture.
- Richard T. Farmer School of Business, a business school at Miami University (Ohio).
- Farmers Telephone Cooperative, a telecommunications company specializing in rural service based in Kingstree, South Carolina.
- Farmers Trading Company, a major retailer in New Zealand.
- Worshipful Company of Farmers, a livery company of London, England.
In politics:
- United Farmers, a Canadian political party.
- Farmer (party), a non-existent party occasionally used as a ticket by disgruntled members of the United Farmers.
- Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, a reasonably successful populist party in Minnesota that merged with the Democratic Party in 1944.
- Farmers' Party (Ireland), also known as the Farmers' Union, a defunct Irish political party.
- Luzon Farmers Party (Butil), a small party in the Philippines.
- Ferme générale (English: farmer-general), an official in charge of "farming" taxes and excise duties in the ancien régime of France.
- Subcontractor (archaic), any individual or corporation to whom certain business is "farmed out."
Among specific people:
- Philip José Farmer, American science fiction writer
- Martin 'Farmer' Burns, a professional wrestler.
- Farmer (name), a list of people bearing the surname Farmer.
In music:
- John Farmer (1570-1605), an English renaissance composer.
- Beat Farmers, a country music band.
- Llama Farmers, a grunge pop band.
- Stage name of Mylène Farmer
- "Farmers", a song by LL Cool J from his 2000 album G.O.A.T.
In geography: