Master Farmer

A Master Farmer is a farmer who cannot be attacked and can only be acted on by pickpocketing. It takes level 38 Thieving to pickpocket them. If the theft is successful, then the player will receive 43 Thieving experience and a random seed (tree and fruit tree seeds cannot be obtained in this manner). Normally, a thief will steal seeds worth under a few hundred coins, but will get a Ranarr seed about once every 5 minutes, or Snapdragon seed  about once every 15–25 minutes. If the theft attempt fails, then the player is stunned for three seconds and hit for 30 life points. After a theft attempt from the Master Farmers, the player will be unable to buy seeds from Olivia, a seed seller who is in Draynor Village market, for the next fifteen minutes.

Other good steals include Watermelon Seed, Torstol Seed , and many other herb seeds. At higher thieving levels, pickpocketing master farmers can produce large amounts of coins for the thief. With 99 thieving, ardougne cloak 3 and gloves of silence, a player can make anywhere from 600k-850k an hour as people have reported to have done over 5000 successful pickpockets in a row.



If you choose to train your Thieving skill on a master farmer it is recommended that once you steal the rare seeds (ranarr, snapdragon, torstol, etc.) you keep at least one of them in your inventory due to the fact that your pack will fill up very quickly with various types of "junk seeds". If you steal seeds from the master farmer whilst your pack is full you still have the chance to successfully steal from the farmer, but you will not receive the seed if it is not currently in your inventory, meaning you could possibly lose out on a valuable seed.

An improvement to this strategy is to keep one seed of every kind or only the high priced seeds in your bank and withdraw only the seeds you want plus some food, filling up your inventory. That way you don't have to constantly drop unwanted seeds. When constantly banking when thieving for money some organise junk seeds into one tab and food/valuable seeds in another.

It may also be a good strategy to pickpocket those in Draynor, banking seeds and replenishing health with wine from Wine stall. Furthermore, players with Saradomin godswords can use their Healing Blade special on nearby targets to heal the damage they take from the master farmers, or players with Enhanced Excalibur can use the special to heal 200 life points.

To prevent the Master Farmer from moving around too much, try to surround him with several players or against walls, obstacles. However, if one player moves away or another player runs through him then he will move away, usually following in the direction of the player.

Note: An easy but somewhat painful way to make double xp and double loot at a low level thieving is to rapidly click on the Master Farmer.

Locations
A Master farmer can be found:
 * In the market at Draynor Village (Near the bank). This farmer needs to be right clicked in order to pick his pockets.
 * Near the farming shop in Hemenster.
 * In the sheep pen south of Varrock.
 * By the potato field north of East Ardougne.

Notable Master Farmers

 * Martin the Master Gardener - Found in Draynor. He wears the Farming skillcape, and can be pickpocketed. He seems slightly harder to pickpocket than the other Master Farmers and also requires a right-click to pickpocket, so it is advised to pick the other Master Farmer near him, however Martin can be trapped in the pig pen so is optional if you don't want to follow the Master Farmers around. He is also the starting point of A Fairy Tale Part I quest.
 * Also take note that the rarity of seeds obtained from the farmers coincides with the level of farming needed to plant them. Example despite Avantoe seeds being worth considerably less than Ranarr seeds, Avantoe are less common.
 * The Master Farmer located in North East Ardougne can be looted twice in one attempt, by trapping him in the farmer trade shop and cornering him and clicking your cursor consecutively. After about 10–15 minutes of this, he will respawn outside of the shop. Getting him into the trade shop is extremely hard doing it solo, but can be easily done with 2-3 people.

Strategy
One of the fastest & best ways for theiving from Master Farmers is to take note of the Seeds from list below, for the ones that you need from him there are a few that you just do not need ie: Potato, Onion, Cabbage, Tomato from the Allotment Seeds; All of the Hops; Redberry, Cadavaberry, Dwellberry, Jangerberry from the Bushes; All but Limproots from the Flowers you don't need; Guam, Marrentil, Tarromin & maybe Harrlander from the Herbs.

Buy or get one of the rest of the seeds remaining and keep them in your inventory while thieving from the Master Farmer, this will create a place holder for the seeds you most want from him, the good seeds will be kept if you should be rewarded one of them.

Also Gloves of Silence and Enhanced Excalibur are highly recommended when theiving from Master Farmers. A bunyip can also be handy if you have extremely low hp.

So in your inventory you should have approx. 19 place holder seeds, A bunyip or Unicorn Pouch, and the rest Gloves of Silence.

Double Loot

 * Level 48 Thieving
 * Level 38 Agility

Triple Loot

 * Level 58 Thieving
 * Level 48 Agility

Quadruple Loot

 * Level 68 Thieving
 * Level 58 Agility