Marketing Sharecropping Tractor 
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him. But Coleman thinks the potential market is much larger.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. When he was nine, he started trucking the tobacco, or driving the loaded tractor from the fields where the hands were harvesting the leaves up to the barns where they were flue cured. It really is modern-day sharecropping.
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Modern Farmer
JUNE 30, 2023
After the Civil War, the sharecropping period often involved predatory practices, including low wages and unsafe conditions. I just didn’t want to do traditional… I don’t know, crop farming, just driving tractors every day.” There’s not many on the market.” But the process hasn’t always come easily.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. While Hawkins is sympathetic to the need, he says the farm’s uprooting will come at a great cost.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 31, 2024
The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest. 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.
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