BSD When the fun is over, does the worker still have to pay? If a sharecropper agreed to work in a field that had a special feature (e.g. a spring or a tree that made the field more attractive to him), and at some point that feature was gone. Can he now pay less since the “carrot” is no longer there? *** What happens when a land lays fallow for an entire year? Does the sharecropper still have to pay his part to the owner?