Acre Real Estate Sharecropping 
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.
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 Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. today it is less than 2 percent.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. percent of all farmers and own fewer than 5 million acres. Today, they make up just 1.3
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