crofters

noun

plural of crofter, chiefly British
as in growers

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  1. growers
  2. sharecroppers
  3. agriculturists
  4. croppers
  5. cultivators
  6. planters
  7. tillers
  8. agronomists
Noun
  • Welcomes anyone who is interested in supporting the local wineries as well as grape growers and amateur and professional wine makers.
    — Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Officials with the California Farm Bureau said the move will present challenges for the state’s growers.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of growers
Noun
  • Born to sharecroppers in South Carolina and raised in Harlem, New York, Gibson lived in a world far from white country clubs or Black luxury.
    — Sophia Zhang, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • All my grandparents were sharecroppers in Mississippi before migrating to Gary in the late 1920s.
    — Lori Latham, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
Definition of sharecroppers
Noun
  • Dressing gardens with compost helps improve soil structure and fertility, supports sustainable gardening practices, keeps ecosystems in balance and can reduce greenhouse gases, agriculturists tell us.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • Despite that, effective control over such management priorities has long rested with agriculturalists and hunters, whose interests are not always shared by the vast majority of Coloradans.
    — DP Opinion, Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2026
Definition of agriculturists
Noun
  • More recently, soybean croppers were angered by the financial support lent to Argentina, which went on to ship large quantities of its own soybeans to China.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Definition of croppers
Noun
  • This scientific understanding is enabling cultivators to engineer diverse, less pungent strains and driving innovation in discreet, low-odor products like edibles and vapes.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Wheat farmers in Britain, sugar beet growers in central Europe, tobacco planters in Virginia and cotton cultivators across the American South all embraced the new fertilizer.
    — Edward D. Melillo, Fortune, 27 July 2026
Definition of cultivators
Noun
  • Seeds can be sown in the ground or containers to transplant to the garden or grow in planters.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2026
  • They were joined by Ichabod and Tom Osborn, planters whose ancestors had settled in the area a century before, and who contributed a few dogs of their own to the pack.
    — Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of planters
Noun
  • America has largely been out of tune regarding that refrain, but its greatest defenders of democracy and its tillers for a better world have not.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2025
Definition of tillers
Noun
  • Elsewhere in Kigali, a group of young agronomists are training farmers to adopt technologies such as hydroponics to maximize productivity, using water instead of soil.
    — Evelyne Musambi, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Cattle were raised, and various crops (including corn [maize] and cotton) were grown with the assistance of agronomists.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Definition of agronomists
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