Really? Good to know they're at least spawning.
Though, the issue still stands: Farmers have not been very desired professions in the past two snapshots. On my 16w39a/b/c world, I ran into a total of 4 villages while on my way to a woodland mansion, and not ONE of them had a single farmer in their population. I didn't see this bug in the list of fixes for 16w40a, so I assumed it was an overlooked issue.
I just realized this ticket is a duplicate of MC-173197. Sorry; I must have missed it during my search check. Hopefully it gets resolved soon.