Farmland Mechanics Plantation 
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 29, 2025
The obstacles are particularly acute for Black farmers, who own far fewer acres of farmland today than they did a century ago. Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. Heres another example: Farmers in Nicodemus dont disturb their land with mechanized tilling because we know it erodes our soil.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
89 
Let's personalize your content