Farmland Sharecropping Tractor 
Modern Farmer
JUNE 30, 2023
Prime farmland, it attracted countless farmers, including the Black farmers seeking to fulfill the promise of “40 acres and a mule” that followed the American Civil War. After the Civil War, the sharecropping period often involved predatory practices, including low wages and unsafe conditions. But the process hasn’t always come easily.
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.; When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him.
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Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. When he was nine, he started trucking the tobacco, or driving the loaded tractor from the fields where the hands were harvesting the leaves up to the barns where they were flue cured. It really is modern-day sharecropping.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country. “You need at least $1 million to purchase farmland in California, and that doesn’t even include the tools, infrastructure, resources, and the labor.” million grant in 2022 to Ujamaa for the purchase of a medium-sized plot of land in Yolo County.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 31, 2024
The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest. Land-trafficking mafias , which operate in every region of Peru, have allowed developers to launder unclaimed swaths of rainforest into legal farmland. “There is a before and an after.”
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