1. A flower pot or box for plants2. Jardinière, one such type of pot3. A person or object engaged in sowing seeds4. Planter (farm implement), implement towed behind a tractor, used for sowing crops through a field5. A coloniser6. A person who owns or manages a plantation, or large farm or ranch
A piece of equipment for seeding that is pulled behind a tractor The planter is used to seed coarser grain seeds such as corn, soybeans, and sunflowers Instead of the long seed box that a drill has, planters have individual seed boxes, one for each row the planter will plant Planters are often designated as 6-row or 12-row planters
After the invention of the cotton gin, southern planters again operated a profitable agriculture and accounted for a significant portion of the United States' exports Though they were only twelve percent of the slave-holding population, half of the South's labor force lived on these plantations (Fifty-five percent of slaves raised cotton; more than half of the slave population was owned by planters presiding over twenty or more slaves ) Planters, in fact, could only increase their production by increasing their investment in slaves: "To sell cotton in order to buy Negroes--to make more cotton to buy more Negroes " When cotton prices rose from their low of five cents a pound in 1844 to ten cents in 1850, planters threw everything they could into the occasion Many came out extremely wealthy, and with their wealth came power