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Rice was the most valuable agricultural crop in the world in 2016. It was third to sugarcane and maize (corn) in quantity produced. This is a rice field in Cambodia.
A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm . The term is used to differentiate a marketed crop from a staple crop ("subsistence crop") in subsistence agriculture , which is one fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for ...
A plantation economy is an economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few commodity crops, grown on large farms worked by laborers or slaves. The properties are called plantations. Plantation economies rely on the export of cash crops as a source of income.
Farms were for sale with from ten to fifty acres cleared, possessing log houses, peach and sometimes apple orchards, inclosed in fences, and having plenty of standing timber for fuel. The land was sown in wheat and corn, which were the staples, while hemp [for making rope] was being cultivated in increasing quantities in the fertile river ...
Most legal definitions of corporate farming in the United States pertain to tax laws, [2] anti-corporate farming laws, [3] and census data collection. [4] These definitions mostly reference farm income, indicating farms over a certain threshold as corporate farms, as well as ownership of the farm, specifically targeting farms that do not pass ownership through family lines.
A common definition of what constituted a plantation is that it typically had 500 to 1,000 acres (2.0 to 4.0 km 2) or more of land and produced one or two cash crops for sale. [3] Other scholars have attempted to define it by the number of enslaved persons. [4]
A new day has dawned for Jubilee Justice after the Keller Family, owners of Inglewood Farm, transferred ownership of 17 acres to the non-profit that helps Black farmers become more self-sufficient ...
AgReserves, Inc. (AgReserves) is a multinational agriculture for-profit company ultimately owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is speculated that AgReserves holds the "most valuable private real estate portfolio in the U.S." [ 1 ]