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. After World War II, a second factor dramatically accelerated the Great Migration.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
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. as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. I was young, I was in my 20s.
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Farmbrite
AUGUST 15, 2024
Agri-Real Estate Loans These loans allow borrowers to use the value of their land as collateral. Real Estate Land Loans These loans can be used to purchase farmland or invest in property improvements. Ag Equity Line of Credit (AELOC) This line of credit is secured by the equity in the farmland rather than your inventory.
Daily Yonder
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
I watched tractor pulls and played high school football games there. I have an agricultural background, so I could talk about my favorite breeds of cattle and joke with them about why green tractors are inferior to red ones. The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification.
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.
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