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Mechanization of Southern Agriculture and Rural Displacement (1930–1960)

Mechanization of Southern Agriculture and Rural Displacement (1930–1960)

  1. Cotton prices collapse deepens rural insecurity

    Labels: Cotton prices, Tenant farmers

  2. Agricultural Adjustment Act incentivizes acreage cuts

    Labels: Agricultural Adjustment, Landlords

  3. Rust brothers build momentum for cotton picking machines

    Labels: Rust brothers, Cotton picker

  4. Resettlement Administration begins rural relocation efforts

    Labels: Resettlement Administration, Rural relocation

  5. Public Rust cotton picker demo at Stoneville

    Labels: Rust cotton, Stoneville demo

  6. Bankhead–Jones Act offers limited path to land ownership

    Labels: Bankhead Jones, Tenant purchase

  7. Farm Security Administration expands anti-poverty farm programs

    Labels: Farm Security, Rural programs

  8. World War II labor shifts accelerate interest in mechanization

    Labels: World War, Labor shifts

  9. International Harvester builds early commercial spindle pickers

    Labels: International Harvester, Spindle pickers

  10. Hopson plantation harvests cotton without hand labor

    Labels: Hopson Plantation, Full mechanization

  11. Postwar production scales up mechanical cotton pickers

    Labels: Postwar production, International Harvester

  12. Mechanized harvesting rises sharply in the 1950s

    Labels: 1950s mechanization, Mechanical pickers

  13. Soil Bank Act pays farmers to retire cropland

    Labels: Soil Bank, Land retirement

  14. Mechanization contributes to the Second Great Migration surge

    Labels: Second Great, Mechanization