Examples of Tenant Farming 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.
- 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.
- A sharecropper is a farm tenant who pays rent with a portion (often half) of the crop he raises and who brings little to the operation besides his family labor; the landlord usually furnishing working stock, tools, fertilizer, housing, fuel, and seed, and often provided regular advice and oversight.
- Many European migrants who worked as agricultural laborers did so with the goal of eventually purchasing their own farm in the United States; however, due to the difficulty farm hands faced in accumulating capital, this goal was often not reached.
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- There were only a few scattered cities; small courthouse towns serviced the farm populations.
- When slavery ended, the large slave-based plantations were mostly subdivided into tenant or sharecropper farms of 20 to 40 acres.
- However, sharecropping, along with tenant farming, became a dominant form in the cotton South from the 1870s to the 1950s, among both blacks and whites.
- "Rural tenancy" refers to a type of tenant-farming arrangement that a landowner can use to make full use of property he may not otherwise be able to develop properly.
- Tenant farming was historically a step up on the "agricultural ladder" from hired hand or sharecropper taken by young farmers as they accumulated enough experience and capital to buy land.
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- In the Act, a tax was imposed on processors of farm products, the proceeds to be paid to farmers who would reduce their area and crops.
- The intent of the act was to increase the prices of certain farm products by decreasing the quantities produced.
- 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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- Farms were in disrepair, and the prewar stock of horses, mules and cattle was much depleted; two-fifths of the South's livestock had been killed.
- The South's farms were not highly mechanized, but the value of farm implements and machinery in the 1860 Census was $81 million and was reduced by 40% by 1870.
- The South was transformed from a prosperous minority of landed gentry slaveholders into a tenant farming agriculture system.
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- Farms were in disrepair, and the prewar stock of horses, mules, and cattle was much depleted, with two-fifths of the South's livestock killed.
- The South's farms were not highly mechanized, but the value of farm implements and machinery in the 1860 Census was $81 million and was reduced by 40 percent by 1870.
- The South was thus transformed from a prosperous minority of landed gentry slaveholders into a tenant farming agriculture system.
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- 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.
- Neither farm nor domestic labor, two sectors where African Americans constituted substantial labor force, were covered under NIRA.
- Similarly, the original version (later amended) of the 1935 Social Security Act did not provide old-age pensions for farm and domestic workers.
- 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.
- The Farm Security Administration, the major New Deal agency established to combat rural poverty, reached out to a much more substantial number of black farmers, tens of thousands of whom received agricultural loans.
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- The demand and resulting prosperity encouraged bigger farms to invest in the most recent technological advances.
- The money for the subsidies were to be generated from tax imposed on companies that processed farm products.
- 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.
- It is estimated that REA increased the rate of farms with access to electricity from 10% to around 40%.
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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.
- The industry and farming skills they brought with them helped solidify the Middle Colonies' prosperity.
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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.
- 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.
- Neither farm nor domestic labor, two sectors where African Americans constituted substantial labor force, were covered under NIRA.
- Similarly, the original version (later amended) of the 1935 Social Security Act did not provide old-age pensions for farm and domestic workers, which automatically excluded a substantial number of senior African Americans (in the South, nearly 40%!).
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- Landholdings were generally farms of 40 to 160 acres, owned by the family that worked them.
- In New York's Hudson Valley, however, the Dutch poltroons operated very large landed estates and rented land to tenant farmers.