farmer

In an older meaning, the tenant or lessee of a farm; the eldest son of such tenant or lessee; a yeoman. In the modern sense of the term, a person who earns his living by, or follows the occupation or profession of farming or agriculture, whether he be the owner or tenant of the land in his use. Hickman v Cruise, 72 Iowa 528. As defined in the Bankruptcy Act:–an individual personally engaged in farming or tillage of the soil, including an individual personally engaged in dairy farming or in the production of poultry, livestock, or poultry or livestock products in their unmanufactured state, if the principal part of his income is derived from any one or more of such operations. Bankr § 1(17); 11 USC § 1(17). A debtor's act in growing garden products for the use of his table, upon premises adjacent to his residence, does not make him a farmer for the purpose of the exception of farmers from involuntary bankruptcy. Nicholson v Williams & S. Co. (CA4 SC) 121 F2d 740. If a debtor's vocation or business is that of a farmer, he will be entitled to the exemptions from execution granted by statute to a "farmer," although he is not at the time of the levy engaged in farming, or doing any specific thing as a farmer, and may not own a farm or have one leased at the time. 22 Am J2d Exemp § 23.