Soybeans are the most profitable crops a farmer can grow.
The practice of slavery made the growing of cash crops profitable in the South. It was decades after slavery that mechanization made it extremely profitable again.
Commercial Farmers raise their crops for this purpose.
cash crops
Arable farmers
farmers sell the crops to companies and companies sell them to stores and then the stores sell them to us
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George Carver encouraged farmers to plant alternative crops instead of cotton. The crop he was most interested in was Peanuts because he not only saw them as a nutritional crop but for other products to improve their lives.
Farmers diversified their crops
Carver's reputation is based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes, which also aided nutrition for farm families. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops both as a source of their own food and as a source of other products to improve their quality of life.
The practice of slavery made the growing of cash crops profitable in the South. It was decades after slavery that mechanization made it extremely profitable again.
The food shortage that is lacking currently in the Philippines is rice. There have been droughts that have prevented rice crops from growing well and many farmers have chosen to grow more profitable crops.
According to the Oxford African American Studies Center, Carver developed an interest in plants and flowers as a young child. He earned both a B.S. and a master's in botany and agriculture. His interest in fighting poverty and malnutrition among black farmers in the South led him to develop a method of soil conservation that involved crop rotation that altered between peanut crops and the typical cotton crops. Peanut crops not only rejuvenated the soil, but supplemented the farmers' diet.
Tenant farmers grew a large variety of crops.
Commercial Farmers raise their crops for this purpose.
farmers eat cash crops
The Virginia plantations could grow more crops and in larger quantities. New England had rocky soil and couldn’t support large fields of crops.
cash crops