Tenant farmers often find themselves starving and poor due to a combination of exploitative land rental agreements and insufficient income from their crops. They typically pay high rents to landowners, leaving them with little profit after expenses. Additionally, adverse weather conditions, lack of access to modern farming techniques, and market fluctuations can further diminish their yields and earnings, trapping them in a cycle of poverty. This systemic inequality limits their ability to improve their circumstances and achieve financial stability.
Tenant farmers used their own tools and animals
Tenant farmers grew a large variety of crops.
Tenant farmers used their own tools and animals
Southern Tenant Farmers Union was created in 1934.
Tenant farmers were different from sharecroppers because they usually had their own tools and animals.
rented the land they farmed
Tenant Farmers
Freeholders.
Plans
Tenant farmers in Uruguay are known as gauchos. Such farmers will lease land for cultivation and are different from sharecroppers.
that hunter farmers plants things.
Tenant farming created a new class of wealthy southerners called merchants. Tenant farmers paid a landowner rent for farmland and a house, The tenant farmer owned the crops, and at harvest time would sell the crops for income to pay rent. However, due to poor crops and various other issues, tenant farmers often borrowed on credit to make the rent. It became a vicious cycle for the tenant farmer, but advantageous for the merchants.