Agriculture Harvester 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
World Wildlife Fund, an organization with a longstanding interest in how agriculture affects the planet, is pushing one idea it thinks would benefit not just the Delta but the country as a whole: Delta farmers could start growing more food that people actually eatspecialty crops, such as fruits, vegetables, and other high-value foods.
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The Equation
AUGUST 27, 2024
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has acknowledged its extensive history of discrimination directed at Black farmers and other marginalized groups. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. Many experienced tremendous economic loss and lost their land as a result.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 27, 2023
The food system bears a disproportionate impact on communities of color, ranging from the farmworkers struggling to feed themselves even as they harvest the nation’s produce to the BIPOC farmers who are often shut out from crucial financing and other resources. This Community Garden Helps Farmworkers Feed Themselves.
Modern Farmer
JULY 16, 2024
Some are even ready to harvest. We need the state of New Jersey to take urban [agriculture] seriously,” said Mustafa. Department of Agriculture approved her application in 2023. “It’s really developed into something really beautiful and productive and community-oriented.”
The Equation
AUGUST 27, 2024
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has acknowledged its extensive history of discrimination directed at Black farmers and other marginalized groups. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. Many experienced tremendous economic loss and lost their land as a result.
Wisconsin Farmers Union
JULY 9, 2024
When you go to a farmers market, you harvest and you hope you don't come back with much. But with the WI LFPA, what we harvested was already sold. A stark contrast from the labor forced upon his ancestors through slavery and sharecropping. of producers contracted through WI LFPA are historically underserved.
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