diff --git a/crates/subspace-farmer/src/bin/subspace-farmer/commands/farm.rs b/crates/subspace-farmer/src/bin/subspace-farmer/commands/farm.rs
index 5ab877aae0..a66ef14ff2 100644
--- a/crates/subspace-farmer/src/bin/subspace-farmer/commands/farm.rs
+++ b/crates/subspace-farmer/src/bin/subspace-farmer/commands/farm.rs
@@ -177,13 +177,6 @@ where
         None => farmer_app_info.protocol_info.max_pieces_in_sector,
     };
 
-    let farming_thread_pool = Arc::new(
-        ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
-            .thread_name(move |thread_index| format!("farming#{thread_index}"))
-            .num_threads(farming_thread_pool_size)
-            .spawn_handler(tokio_rayon_spawn_handler())
-            .build()?,
-    );
     let plotting_thread_pool = Arc::new(
         ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
             .thread_name(move |thread_index| format!("plotting#{thread_index}"))
@@ -217,7 +210,7 @@ where
                 erasure_coding: erasure_coding.clone(),
                 piece_getter: piece_getter.clone(),
                 cache_percentage,
-                farming_thread_pool: Arc::clone(&farming_thread_pool),
+                farming_thread_pool_size,
                 plotting_thread_pool: Arc::clone(&plotting_thread_pool),
                 replotting_thread_pool: Arc::clone(&replotting_thread_pool),
             },
diff --git a/crates/subspace-farmer/src/bin/subspace-farmer/main.rs b/crates/subspace-farmer/src/bin/subspace-farmer/main.rs
index 154a174166..fa179bdb8c 100644
--- a/crates/subspace-farmer/src/bin/subspace-farmer/main.rs
+++ b/crates/subspace-farmer/src/bin/subspace-farmer/main.rs
@@ -95,15 +95,18 @@ struct FarmingArgs {
     /// Do not print info about configured farms on startup
     #[arg(long)]
     no_info: bool,
-    /// Size of thread pool used for farming (mostly for blocking I/O, but also for some compute-intensive
-    /// operations during proving), defaults to number of CPU cores available in the system
+    /// Size of PER FARM thread pool used for farming (mostly for blocking I/O, but also for some
+    /// compute-intensive operations during proving), defaults to number of CPU cores available in
+    /// the system
     #[arg(long, default_value_t = available_parallelism())]
     farming_thread_pool_size: usize,
-    /// Size of thread pool used for plotting, defaults to number of CPU cores available in the system
+    /// Size of thread pool used for plotting, defaults to number of CPU cores available in the
+    /// system. This thread pool is global for all farms and generally doesn't need to be changed.
     #[arg(long, default_value_t = available_parallelism())]
     plotting_thread_pool_size: usize,
-    /// Size of thread pool used for replotting, typically smaller pool than for plotting to not affect farming as much,
-    /// defaults to half of the number of CPU cores available in the system.
+    /// Size of thread pool used for replotting, typically smaller pool than for plotting to not
+    /// affect farming as much, defaults to half of the number of CPU cores available in the system.
+    /// This thread pool is global for all farms and generally doesn't need to be changed.
     #[arg(long, default_value_t = available_parallelism() / 2)]
     replotting_thread_pool_size: usize,
 }
diff --git a/crates/subspace-farmer/src/single_disk_farm.rs b/crates/subspace-farmer/src/single_disk_farm.rs
index 1ccbd536fb..a85a5cb39f 100644
--- a/crates/subspace-farmer/src/single_disk_farm.rs
+++ b/crates/subspace-farmer/src/single_disk_farm.rs
@@ -285,9 +285,9 @@ pub struct SingleDiskFarmOptions<NC, PG> {
     pub erasure_coding: ErasureCoding,
     /// Percentage of allocated space dedicated for caching purposes
     pub cache_percentage: NonZeroU8,
-    /// Thread pool used for farming (mostly for blocking I/O, but also for some compute-intensive
-    /// operations during proving)
-    pub farming_thread_pool: Arc<ThreadPool>,
+    /// Thread pool size used for farming (mostly for blocking I/O, but also for some
+    /// compute-intensive operations during proving)
+    pub farming_thread_pool_size: usize,
     /// Thread pool used for plotting
     pub plotting_thread_pool: Arc<ThreadPool>,
     /// Thread pool used for replotting, typically smaller pool than for plotting to not affect
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ impl SingleDiskFarm {
             kzg,
             erasure_coding,
             cache_percentage,
-            farming_thread_pool,
+            farming_thread_pool_size,
             plotting_thread_pool,
             replotting_thread_pool,
         } = options;
@@ -991,6 +991,7 @@ impl SingleDiskFarm {
                         }
 
                         let farming_options = FarmingOptions {
+                            disk_farm_index,
                             public_key,
                             reward_address,
                             node_client,
@@ -1002,7 +1003,7 @@ impl SingleDiskFarm {
                             handlers,
                             modifying_sector_index,
                             slot_info_notifications: slot_info_forwarder_receiver,
-                            thread_pool: farming_thread_pool,
+                            thread_pool_size: farming_thread_pool_size,
                         };
                         farming::<PosTable, _>(farming_options).await
                     };
diff --git a/crates/subspace-farmer/src/single_disk_farm/farming.rs b/crates/subspace-farmer/src/single_disk_farm/farming.rs
index d8bce4c761..56a8babaf4 100644
--- a/crates/subspace-farmer/src/single_disk_farm/farming.rs
+++ b/crates/subspace-farmer/src/single_disk_farm/farming.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use futures::channel::mpsc;
 use futures::StreamExt;
 use parking_lot::{Mutex, RwLock};
 use rayon::prelude::*;
-use rayon::{ThreadPool, ThreadPoolBuildError};
+use rayon::{ThreadPoolBuildError, ThreadPoolBuilder};
 use std::fs::File;
 use std::io;
 use std::sync::Arc;
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ pub enum FarmingError {
 }
 
 pub(super) struct FarmingOptions<'a, NC> {
+    pub(super) disk_farm_index: usize,
     pub(super) public_key: PublicKey,
     pub(super) reward_address: PublicKey,
     pub(super) node_client: NC,
@@ -77,15 +78,13 @@ pub(super) struct FarmingOptions<'a, NC> {
     pub(super) handlers: Arc<Handlers>,
     pub(super) modifying_sector_index: Arc<RwLock<Option<SectorIndex>>>,
     pub(super) slot_info_notifications: mpsc::Receiver<SlotInfo>,
-    pub(super) thread_pool: Arc<ThreadPool>,
+    pub(super) thread_pool_size: usize,
 }
 
 /// Starts farming process.
 ///
 /// NOTE: Returned future is async, but does blocking operations and should be running in dedicated
 /// thread.
-// False-positive, we do drop lock before .await
-#[allow(clippy::await_holding_lock)]
 pub(super) async fn farming<PosTable, NC>(
     farming_options: FarmingOptions<'_, NC>,
 ) -> Result<(), FarmingError>
@@ -94,6 +93,7 @@ where
     NC: NodeClient,
 {
     let FarmingOptions {
+        disk_farm_index,
         public_key,
         reward_address,
         node_client,
@@ -105,9 +105,14 @@ where
         handlers,
         modifying_sector_index,
         mut slot_info_notifications,
-        thread_pool,
+        thread_pool_size,
     } = farming_options;
 
+    let thread_pool = ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
+        .thread_name(move |thread_index| format!("farming-{disk_farm_index}.{thread_index}"))
+        .num_threads(thread_pool_size)
+        .build()?;
+
     let table_generator = Arc::new(Mutex::new(PosTable::generator()));
 
     while let Some(slot_info) = slot_info_notifications.next().await {