sodbuster

sod·bus·ter

(sŏd′bŭs′tər)

n. Slang

A farmer.

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sodbuster

(ˈsɒdˌbʌstə)

(Agriculture) censorious Western US a farmer, farm hand, or homesteader

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Noun

sodbuster - a person who operates a farm

farmer, granger, husbandman

contadino - an Italian farmer

creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things

agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser - someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil

apiarist, apiculturist, beekeeper - a farmer who keeps bees for their honey

dairy farmer, dairyman - the owner or manager of a dairy

arboriculturist, tree farmer, forester - someone trained in forestry

plantation owner, planter - the owner or manager of a plantation

rancher - a person who owns or operates a ranch

smallholder - a person owning or renting a smallholding

small farmer - a farmer on a small farm

sower - someone who sows

stock farmer, stock raiser, stockman - farmer who breed or raises livestock

tenant farmer - a farmer who works land owned by someone else

tiller - someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)

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"Nother pig-headed sodbuster. What's wrong with a little jaw anyhoo?" he grumbles sotto voce.

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One of the most common is the Sodbuster pattern, which is nothing more than a big jackknife with a handle in the 4.5" range--and there are junior versions which average 3.6".

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Environmental concerns were also addressed by other provisions of the 1985 act, notably the sodbuster and swampbuster provisions that rendered farmers who converted virgin grassland or wetlands to crop production ineligible for any farm program benefits, including price supports, crop insurance, disaster payments, and some federally guaranteed loans.

The Farm Bill, Conservation, and the Environment

Enacted in 1985, "[c]onservation compliance is the closest analog to environmental regulation in the Farm Bill." (136) Comprised of the "sodbuster" and "swampbuster" requirements, conservation compliance provisions require that in exchange for farm bill benefits and subsidies such as commodity payments, farm loans, crop insurance, and conservation payments, producers meet conservation requirements for highly erodible lands and wetlands.

THE HEALTHY WATERSHED FRAMEWORK: A BLUEPRINT FOR RESTORING NUTRIENT-IMPAIRED WATERBODIES THROUGH INTEGRATED CLEAN WATER ACT AND FARM BILL CONSERVATION PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION AT THE SUBWATERSHED LEVEL

To be eligible for assistance in the various programs, producers and landowners must comply with conservation provisions and requirements on highly erodible land (Sodbuster) and on wetlands (Swampbuster).

Conservation and the Agricultural Act of 2014

Deep in the Willamette Valley, at Sodbuster Hop Farms, there is an entire field of Salmon Safe Cascade hops that are grown especially for Full Sail.

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The old term "sodbuster" took on a whole new meaning for us!

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Filburn (1942) the Court unanimously ruled that the federal government could regulate Ohio sodbuster Roscoe Filburns personal use of his own homegrown wheat.

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In Penn Warren's All the King's Men sodbuster and schoolteacher Willie Stark starts his odyssey to the statehouse full of high ideals and good intentions, but by the time he moves into the governor's mansion, Stark has sold every ideal and voter down the river.

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The Case Sodbuster is a hard working slip joint folder that has been around for a half century and has seen a lot of use by farmers and hunters alike.