Greenhouse Logistics Plantation 
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.
Civil Eats
JUNE 24, 2024
Can you explain the logistics of creating a cheeseburger entirely from scratch, and how the refrigerated food system makes that possible? But through consolidation and dependence on a single crop, big plantations in Central America and the foreign corporations that run them have also [left a legacy of] political monoculture in the region.
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