Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. It really is modern-day sharecropping. The company would eventually like to source more of its hemp fiber domestically, from minority farmers in particular, with the hope of increasing the diversity of the farmers in its supply chain.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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. The silver lining of COVID is that everyone is way more focused on supply chain security, she told me. Williams, Harveys grandfather. In 1949, U.D.

Acre 103

Acre Crop Farming Farming 103

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JULY 9, 2024

A stark contrast from the labor forced upon his ancestors through slavery and sharecropping. It’s many other people of color that have been put in bad positions when it comes to agriculture, like slavery and sharecropping. He often thinks deeply about their experiences. But it's not just Black folks.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Food Farming Farming 52

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. After the antebellum plantation system ended, exploitative and oppressive systems continued through the sharecropping system.

Food 98

Food Plantation Sharecropping Farming 98