the owner of a stump ranch.
See also: stump rancher
- 1938  A stump farmer, who had been making a pretty good thing of selling fresh eggs and milk to the Company, packed up and sent out hens, pigs and horse.
- 1964  The first thing a . . . stump farmer did was to buy a cow. She could usually find enough to eat among the stumps until the farmer could clear a few acres for pasture. . . .