Examples of tenant farmer in the following topics:
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- A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord.
- Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management, while tenant farmers contribute their labor along with at times varying amounts of capital and management.
- In some systems, the tenant could be evicted at whim (tenancy at will); in others, the landowner and tenant sign a contract for a fixed number of years (tenancy for years or indenture).
- Tenant farming was historically a step on the "agricultural ladder" from hired hand or sharecropper taken by young farmers as they accumulated enough experience and capital to buy land (or buy out their siblings when a farm was inherited. ) In 1920, many came from Japan to the West Coast states.
- Examine the experience of tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and migrant workers in the late nineteenth century
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- Unlike sharecroppers, who were given all resources by the landowner, tenant farmers rented the land, provided their own tools and mule, and received half the crop.
- Landowners provided more supervision to sharecroppers, and less or none to tenant farmers.
- The landowner would extend to the farmer shelter, food, and necessary items on credit to be repaid out of the tenant's share of the crop.
- The farmer could, if he desired, charge the tenant extremely high interest on the advanced pay because there were no lending laws applicable to migrant or tenant workers at the time.
- This could ultimately result in the tenant owing the landlord more money than his share of the crop at harvest, forcing the farmer to be further indentured to the landowner.
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- The AAA disproportionately benefited large farmers and food processors, to the disadvantage of small farmers and sharecroppers.
- For example, the AAA stipulated that farmers were required to pay a share of the government funds they recieved (as part of the acre reduction contracts) to the tenant farmers and sharecroppers who held a portion of the farmland.
- What's more, this requirement gave landlords an incentive to get rid of their tenant farmers and replace them with wage laborers.
- Over the remaining years of the Great Depression, the once-common practice of sharecropping and tenant farming became exceedingly rare and vast amounts of tenant farmers were put out, without homes or means of income.
- By the last half of the century sharecropping and tenant farming had become obsolete.
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- The title of patroon was given to some of the Dutch colony's invested members, who operated very large landed estates and rented land to tenant farmers.
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- The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among U.S. farmers that flourished in the 1880s.
- After the American Civil War, farmers in the South had little cash.
- When the cotton crop was harvested, farmers turned it over to the merchant to pay back their loan.
- When cotton prices were low, the crop did not cover the debt and the farmer started the next year in the red.
- The credit system was used by land owners, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers.
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- The Dutch set up fur trading posts in the Hudson River valley, followed by large grants of land to rich landowning patroons who brought in tenant farmers to create compact, permanent villages.
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- In New York's Hudson Valley, however, the Dutch poltroons operated very large landed estates and rented land to tenant farmers.
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- For example, the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) drove many black farmers from the land.
- As subsidies were paid to (usually white) landlords for not growing certain crops on a part of their land, black (and white) sharecroppers and other tenants were the first victims of the new policy.
- In 1937, the Roosevelt administration finally addressed some challenges faced by black farmers.
- The Bankhead–Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937 provided affordable loans to tenant farmers in order to purchase land but relatively few African Americans benefited from the Act's provisions.
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- The crisis in agriculture that began long before the onset of the Great Depression also greatly affected African Americans, many of whom still lived off the land, more often as sharecroppers and other tenants than landowners.
- For example, the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) drove many black farmers from the land.
- As subsidies were paid to (usually white) landlords for not growing certain crops on a part of their land, black (and white) sharecroppers and other tenants were the first victims of the new policy.
- The evicted farmers were often forced to migrate to northern cities as the southern countryside had no alternative to offer.
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- World War I created extremely beneficial conditions for farmers and, consequently, easier times for often struggling rural workers.
- While these changes benefited urban residents (cheaper food), particularly smaller farmers struggled to make any profit.
- With lower prices, farmers produced even more of whatever had the highest potential to generate profit.
- Many small landowners and tenants, particularly sharecroppers, were forced to leave rural areas and seek employment in economically struggling cities.
- Some of the measures employed by FSA were: low interest rates loans for farmers, building cooperative farms where the poorest farmers were resettled in order to farm collectively (the government would also buy the submarginal land from those farmers), and educational aid to rural families.