Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; The farms had to be large, though, to pay off the machines. today it is less than 2 percent.

Acre 89

Acre Farming Farming Crop 89

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. It really is modern-day sharecropping. He made good money, but rather than putting it into the farm, he splurged.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country.

Cultivation 145

Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 145