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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Acre Crop Farming Farming 108

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As textile mills began to proliferate, the cotton grown on Southern plantations, which relied on the labor of enslaved people, proved to be a cheaper option than flax. The latter tended to fare better in the North. Pockets of linen production persisted for a while, but by the middle of the 20th century, even those were gone.

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Textiles Supply Chain Harvest Harvesting 120

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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Supply Chain Food Manufacturing Technology 139