Production 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. Its no accident that blues music, the Deltas best-known product, emerged in this region, according to historian John C. All his siblings left, too.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. Hes serious, measured, and focused, but also kind.
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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.” But the process hasn’t always come easily. His brother and late father, Harvey Sr.,
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. Still, “it’s difficult to unbuild how land was used to punish us for 400 years,” Mack says, referring to the deep scars left by a history of enslavement and sharecropping.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Each year, these plantations generate about $50 million in revenue for the Ocho Sur group, whose palm oil has ended up in products ranging from Cheetos to Colgate toothpaste. The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest.
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