Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains.

Acre 111

Acre Crop Farming Farming 111

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

In the summertime, Montclair Community Farms transforms its less-than-10,000-square-foot lot into a space with something for everyone: a garden education program for children, a job training site for teens, and a pop-up produce market for Essex County residents. Some are even ready to harvest. Our zoning is different here.

Food 123

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 123

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JULY 9, 2024

While Martice and Amy enjoy selling at farmers markets, their true passion is growing food for people in need in their community. WI LFPA gives many farmers much needed income security through guaranteed contracts and a first introduction to wholesale markets. “WI But with the WI LFPA, what we harvested was already sold.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Food Farming Farming 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

Seed farming offers farmers an additional revenue stream with a lighter lift than market farming, with less field time, lower seed costs, if any, and a ready market as demand for seeds outstrips supply. We would harvest things in the morning, prepare them, and they’d be on the table for 3 o’clock.

Food 111

Food Seeding Farming Farming 111

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The global market for palm oil, valued at more than $70 billion last year, is experiencing steady growth, driven by its use in products as varied as food, beverages, biofuels, and cosmetics. After postings in London and Prague, he found his niche in the free-market mecca of Singapore, where he set up his own venture capital fund in 2006.

Plantation 126

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 126