Agricultural Security Quotes
What happened is that farmers over the year became either industrialized mechanized agricultural enterprises or peasants and the later did exactly what Capper predicted—moved to the cities. Agribusiness thrived and small traditional farmers were ruined unless they adopted the new technologies.
Rack-Renting was the term for a Landlord charging the Tenant farmer an exorbitant rent per year for the right to farm and live on the land. Often the rent for a single year would be an amount equal to the fair market value of the purchase of the entire property, but the Landlords would never sell. The tenant farmers rarely had any alternative as that land had their home such as it was and provided their meager living which generally was only slightly more than the Rack Rent. The Irish National Land League was created to reform the land use and allocation system of Ireland.