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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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.

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The contribution of farming to the rural environment: A farmer’s viewpoint in 1985

Sustainable Food Trust

On my own farm this period is remembered by a 25-acre Scots pine plantation which was naturally regenerated on land that had previously grown wheat. In the past the farming industry has provided: The bulk of jobs in the countryside – farmworkers, contractors, wagon drivers and mechanics. The money to sustain the rural environment.