Mechanics Plantation Tractor 
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. 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. All his siblings left, too.
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.
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