My uncle has been a farmer for 60 years.
a young farmer whose family has been growing wheat for many generations
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14th century
agriculturist (or agriculturalist), agronomist, cultivator, grower, planter, tiller;
farmhand, field hand, gleaner, harvester, plowman, reaper;
gentleman farmer, sharecropper, subsistence farmer, tenant farmer, yeoman;
homesteader, nester [West];
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