Informal term for someone who only engages with easy, less challenging opportunities, while ignoring greater yet more difficult opportunities.
Etymology: Derived from the metaphor of "low-hanging fruit" representing effortless tasks or gains. Farmers, in this context, are individuals solely focused on these readily available options.
The marketing team are just a bunch of low-hanging fruit farmers, always chasing the latest trend instead of building long-term strategies.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)