I did a cursory search for this in the past, but didn't find what I was looking for.
A few specific questions that I have:
Was most of the land owned by the upper class and rented out, or was it land owners that were working their own fields?
What did they typically grow? Did they grow a single crop, or many different crops? Were there any farmers who were mostly subsistence, with a little extra for bartering, or did the financial burdens require most of their crops to go to market?
What was their free time like? Was farming something that took up all of their time?
But I'm generally interested in the quality of life of a typical farmer, and an understanding of the range of lives that could be called "farmers": I know there were plantation owners, and homesteaders, but I don't know a lot of what was in between, or what the breakdown was.
Europe...dozens of countries, languages, economies, cultures, laws, weather extremes, animals etc I think a more precise question would get a better answer.
You might be interested in the book Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 by Daniel Vickers. As another comment mentions, "in Europe and America" is a really large landmass with quite a bit of variation. The book I mentioned above talks a little bit about how England's farming was in the 17th century, and how that translated to New England, and how things began to differ. It is twenty years old, so some of its information might be outdated now, but it might give you some idea of how a farmer's life was, in early and post-colonial New England.