Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Right now, its too wet for us to get into the field with a tractor, she explained the night after a thunderstorm this summer. Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. And growing rice with SRI can cut those emissions nearly in half.

Plantation 126

Plantation Acre Farming Farming 126

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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. Food production was at a premium, tractors appeared, and labour started to disappear from the farming scene. Tractors are expected to cut four acres an hour.

Ruralism 52

Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Farming Through Four Generations In the early 19th century, Oakley Grove plantation was owned by a medical doctor named Lafayette Browne and his wife, Mary Ann Falcon Browne.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him. All his siblings left, too.

Acre 111

Acre Crop Farming Farming 111