Originally Posted by gale

I'd say if he does any of that, he's a farmer. My husband has hired someone to cut beans or wheat once in a while. Mainly if we're running late or bad weather is looming and we have to get it out quickly. That only happens once in a great while though. I could count on one hand the total number of times we've hired out combining in the past 20+ years.

On our tax forms we are both called farmers. I don't do any farming at all (well I gather the eggs and help dh move equipment) but I guess it counts for Uncle Sam.

On a side note-I guess the current thing is to not call someone who sews a sewer because it's spelled like the place where waste goes. lol. We are all sewists (which to me sounds really weird) or seamstresses, which sounds kind of stuffy.