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Recent Examples of sharecropping
Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
He’s been living in this environment in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in this constant life cycle of sharecropping, going to church, taking care of his family, and repeating it over and over again.
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Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
By the late eighteen-sixties, landowners had settled on sharecropping—a system that kept agricultural workers, many of them former slaves, in perpetual debt—to rebuild their economic dominance after the Civil War.
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Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
He’s been living in this environment in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in this constant life cycle of sharecropping, going to church, taking care of his family, and repeating it over and over again.
—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
15 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sharecropping
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High prices and a stagnating agricultural economy could create an enthusiasm gap for Republicans heading into the midterms in farming and rural communities in places like Iowa, Short said.
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Today, the reality of farming is very much about technology and business, just as postwar experts envisioned.
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There’s something quietly radical in that insistence that transformation doesn’t require a grand reset, just patient cultivation of alternatives.
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The wine-country startup wanted to revolutionize the cultivation of grapes and other fruit with $100,000 robotractors, but the technology didn’t work well enough.
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Torn between toiling away at farmwork, his corrective swimming lessons, and learning music from a local organist — the elderly Michel (Alexandre Astier, Clichy’s former directing partner), who shows him more kindness than most — Christophe’s world gradually widens.
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of foreign laborers are drawn to America by the promise of steady, seasonal farmwork through the H-2A program.
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But de Liedekerke stressed that the potential benefits of regenerative agriculture go beyond climate change.
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Driven by poverty, displacement, limited access to quality education and other factors, child labor is most prevalent in agriculture and disproportionately affects children in the world’s poorest regions.
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For those with the space and a long-term gardening mindset, that investment can pay off with years of future harvests.
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The podcast host also planted the White House’s first kitchen garden since Eleanor Roosevelt's World War II Victory Garden, and used the green space for community gardening initiatives.
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Better practices such as cover crops, reduced or no tillage to protect the soil and on-farm installations to reduce runoff have substantially increased in recent years.
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Additionally, 57 percent of acreage uses no-till or conservation tillage, minimizing soil disturbance to reduce erosion, improve water infiltration and lower fuel use.
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Anthony Reardon is a horticulture agent with Johnson County, K-State University Extension.
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Mayor Blake Roberts' family horticulture business has been part of the Forest Lake, Minnesota, community for generations.
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“Sharecropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecropping. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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