Transforming the Delta
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Sitting in the middle of the country, the Delta has plenty of water and great logistics as well as rich soil. 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.
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