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sodbuster [< sodbust, q.v. + -er] Slang 
n. a farmer, especially a farmer who raises field crops rather than livestock.
See also: sodbust
- 1922 "Between your fine words I figger that you pick up a dollar now an' again by tottin' these tenderfoot sod-busters out over the bald-headed."
- 1959 It is on the subject of pioneers -- trailbreakers, bushwhackers, sodbusters, homesteaders -- that the slick "free enterprise" propagandist . . . waxes most eloquent. . . .
- 1922 "Between your fine words I figger that you pick up a dollar now an' again by tottin' these tenderfoot sod-busters out over the bald-headed."