Acre Logistics Plantation 
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 Sitting in the middle of the country, the Delta has plenty of water and great logistics as well as rich soil. Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 4, 2023
As textile mills began to proliferate, the cotton grown on Southern plantations, which relied on the labor of enslaved people, proved to be a cheaper option than flax. It spans hundreds of thousands of acres in Europe and Asia. The latter tended to fare better in the North. These days, the flax grown for linen is an industrial crop.
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