Monkey Farmer

"Tired of picking up all those bananas yourself? So is this guy, but at least he's paid to do it. Farmer will auto-gather all bananas in his radius so you don't have to."

- Bloons TD 5 Deluxe and Bloons TD 6 Description

"The Banana Farmer doesn't believe in popping Bloons, but he's an expert when it comes to collecting bananas. Place him near your Banana Farms and he'll save you from the trouble of manually collecting the bananas."

- BMC Mobile Description

The  is a special agent that appears in Bloons TD 5 Deluxe, Bloons TD 5 Mobile, Bloons Monkey City Mobile, Bloons TD Battles Mobile and Bloons TD 6 and Bloons Adventure Time TD. It is alternatively called Banana Farmer in BTD5/BMC/BTD6 mobile. It only costs 40 (50 in BTD6) making it one of the cheapest special agents in the game (the others being Pontoon and Portable Lake).

It collects bananas (or boxes) within its large range from Banana Farms, crates dropped by Supply Drop Snipers, and also the crate dropped by the Heli Pilot's Support Chinook on BTD5 Mobile. It's particularly useful if you want to focus on using your Dartling Guns while having Banana Farms too. You need to place it 50 times in order to get the Monkey Farmer Pro (Total cost of 2000).

Bloons Monkey City Mobile
On March 2016, the Monkey Farmer became a tower for Bloons Monkey City Mobile. It costs $1.99 USD for each Banana Barn and the Farmer itself is free to place when capturing tiles. Along with its original capability of collecting bananas and crates in-game, each Banana Barn building purchased provides a 10% increased capacity to each Banana Farm in the city, thus the effect can stack with other Barns. These do not appear in the Monkey Buildings tab until the Banana Farm Lab is built, provided that the player's City is at least Level 15.

Bloons TD Battles
On October 27th 2016, the Monkey Farmer became available on Bloons TD Battles Mobile as a one-use tower, and costs 200 each (formerly 100). It can be used only if the player chooses Banana Farms along the battle.

On December 19th 2018, Monkey Farmer now has a premium version of himself called Robo Farmer. Robo Farmer can collect all bananas from the entire screen, as well as attracting bananas towards him three times as fast. A set of 5 Robo Farmers cost $2.99 USD and will replace your Monkey Farmers when you pick a Banana Farm, until you use all of your Robo Farmers. Robo Farmers are also earned by spinning the Battle Spinner and hoping for a lucky spin.

Bloons TD 6
On July 13th 2018, Monkey Farmer makes a return to BTD6 as "Banana Farmer". He now costs 50. He can collect all nearby bananas and crates from Banana Farms, as well as other collectables such as Cash Drops and Supply Drop crates, and later on crates from Monkeyopolis (since Version 2.0), and Bloon Traps and XXXL Traps.

Bloons Adventure Time TD
Monkey Farmer returns as a legendary item in Bloons Adventure Time TD. Unlike all variants of Monkey Farmer, the farmer can reach collectables across any range and costs in-game money instead of a secondary currency. To unlock Monkey Farmer, a lucky Legendary Orb must be opened and the Monkey Farmer collected, or can be purchased for 75,000 in the Martian Store once available. Alternatively, the farmer can be purchased for $2.99 USD.

Summary
The general strategy for Monkey Farmer in any game the farmer appears in is for convenience of picking up collectable income. For less hassles with collecting collectable income, Monkey Farmer makes picking up of any collectable income source become automatic, provided the farmer can reach the collectables.

Tips

 * Place near a large congregation of Banana Farms or wherever a large source of collectable income is.

BTD5 generation

 * It was released again in Bloons TD 5 Mobile because it is much harder to tap the bananas instead of moving your mouse on them and can be pretty risky because sometimes a tap might miss a banana and can spoil.
 * Monkey Farmer can farm Bloon Traps that are full and the Care Packages dropped by the Support Chinook and the Supply Drop Ability.
 * Farmers cannot farm Bloon Traps on the Mobile/Steam Version however.
 * They can farm lives gained by Attrition, though this is rarely observed because the lives auto collect.
 * It can be seen if auto collecting is turned off in the code, then the Banana Farmer will pickup the "crates" generated by Attrition.
 * This tower is one of the only two special agents that are monkeys, the other being Super Monkey Storm.
 * This is the only tower that can be used on any terrain tile in Bloons Monkey City Mobile, even if it's a Special Terrain tile that imposes tower restrictions.
 * The Monkey Farmer used to be able to "steal" bananas from another person in BTD5 Co-Op, though this has been patched.
 * Even though it doesn't attack bloons, BTD5 Monkey Sub with Advanced Intel still attacks bloons within its range.
 * This might be a clue due to the Pro version which shoots banana peels on the track, and the Farmer's range prior to being Pro is used to collect bananas.
 * A fully-upgraded Al's Custom Chippers will mostly obsolete this agent, since it makes Bloonchippers suck in bananas, but only if the Specialty building is active.
 * It may be efficient only if the given Specialty Building is a better choice in case of limited tower selection.
 * In Bloons Monkey City Mobile, if you have the Banana Replicator special item which increases the capacity of the player's first Farm by 150 (1150 capacity total) in the city, placing a Banana Barn will give a 115 capacity increase to the first Farm (1265 capacity total) instead of 100.
 * Although Farmers does not pop any Bloons, they do have a pop count in their tower interface.
 * Before the Robo Farmer update, Monkey Farmers used to cost 100 each instead of 200.

BTD6

 * In BTD6, Advanced Intel does not consider Banana Farmer range to be valid intel.