agriculturist

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

agriculturist
    n 1: someone concerned with the science or art or business of
         cultivating the soil [syn: {agriculturist},
         {agriculturalist}, {cultivator}, {grower}, {raiser}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Agriculturist \Ag`ri*cul"tur*ist\, n.
   One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.
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         The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist
         may be a mere theorist.                  --Crabb.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "agriculturist":
      Bauer, agriculturalist, agrologist, agronomist, coffee-planter,
      collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer,
      dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer,
      granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman,
      kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder,
      picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, raiser, rancher, ranchman,
      reaper, rustic, sharecropper, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer,
      tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman