In exchange for this, the owner would get a large share of the crop raised by the tenant farmer.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Stuff that the eighteenth century farmer made for him and herself now you bought from a peddler or you bought from a store in town.

8世纪的农民,自给自足的东西,现在他们从商贩那儿购买,或者到城里的商店购买

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He worked at all sorts of jobs: in factories, at a mill, on a newspaper. He was a schoolteacher, and of course he was a farmer, too, when his grandfather gave him a farm to work, which he did, for ten years in Derry, New Hampshire.

他做过各种工作，在工厂，磨坊，报社，他也当过教师，他是一个农民，他祖父给了他一块地，十年里他都在新汉普夏羊劳作。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In Burkina Faso, a farmer named Yacouba Sawadogo became internationally known for growing a forest.

VOA: special.2011.05.10

He looked more like a simple farmer than a candidate for the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

A farmer named Joseph Wojtkiewicz asked me to treat his son for a high fever.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Lincoln,for his part, may have looked like a simple farmer.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

The foot-operated pumps are sold for a hundred dollars -- a lot of money for an African subsistence farmer.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

"Food aid is never good for us." "As a farmer, I'm one of the first affected.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

It warns of a nearing catastrophe. For Intifar's father, Mahmoud Abu Ibrahim,a farmer in his 80s whose crops depend on rainfall, the catastrophe is here.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

longer growing season." For third-generation Texas rice farmer Ray Stoesser, Cuba is a promising market and he does not want politics to get in the way.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

For a small farmer, replacing a bucket with a pump can lead to cultivating a wider variety of crops and creating work for family and neighbors.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Their mobile phones could save them a trip. So,while it may not be good for plowing a field or harvesting vegetables, the mobile phone is becoming one of a farmer's most valuable tools.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28