planter vs farmer

planter and farmer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
planter	Yes	No	No	No
farmer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, farmer is a hypernym of planter; that is, farmer is a word with a broader meaning than planter:

Other hypernyms of planter include granger, husbandman, sodbuster.

planter (noun)	farmer (noun)
a decorative pot for house plants	a person who operates a farm
the owner or manager of a plantation
a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground