He has been a self-employed farmer for thirty years.

The demand from self-employed farmers and entrepreneurs was irresistible.

A dispute between a husbandman (a self-employed farmer) and a serving man.

Now the county's largest employer, Rosenbluth also provides family medical insurance, a major cost to self-employed farmers.

At the time Horwich was a hamlet of 320 residents, mostly self-employed farmers and cotton weavers.

He studied in farm management, and worked as a jackaroo, farm manager, and then self-employed farmer.

But Mr Boswell says the worrying trend which emerged from an analysis is the risk self-employed farmers are prepared to take.

The number of self-employed farmers in the United States, Japan, France and Germany fell by about 6 million, or 50 per cent.

It is a matter of scale; of working with like-minded, self-employed farmers and craftsmen rather than of subservience to faceless officials and giant firms.

Self-employed farmers were in a complicated situation with National Insurance and the appeal tribunal often heard their cases; Beattie later stressed that "I thought .

A senior Government official said the economic austerity would affect city residents far more than peasants who do not buy gasoline, pay for electricity or worry about unemployment because they are self-employed farmers.

He worked in the animal science department at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster before venturing out on his own as a self-employed farmer, predominately producing market hogs.

For example, most farmers are self-employed, many farmers now work part-time in other occupations but may still be classified as self-employed farmers, farmers' wives often work for them as partners, professional people may often work from home preferring a rural to an urban base, and large estates still employ a number of private domestic staff.