Sledge Taylor, From a Mule to a Deere: High Tech Agriculture in the Mississippi Delta, Delta: Everything Southern, 2013

Authors

Publication Date

8-5-2021

Abstract

Mr. William Sledge Taylor, III has witnessed the remarkable development of high tech machines to cultivate and harvest crops that took immense manpower and time in days past. He owns and personally oversees Buckeye Farms, a large farm in the Como, Mississippi, area where he raises fine southern crops - cotton, corn, soybeans, wheat, timber and cattle. Mr. Taylor will describe the major technological and sociological changes in farming which have helped to make the Delta the most fertile and productive area in the country. Presentation from the collection of William Bearden.

Source Collection

Delta: Everything Southern, 2013

Recommended Citation

"Sledge Taylor, From a Mule to a Deere: High Tech Agriculture in the Mississippi Delta, Delta: Everything Southern, 2013" (2021). Video. 5.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-exhibit-ev_south2013-av1/5

Date

2013 June 7