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    Decades of USDA Racism Leave Black Farmers Fighting for Equality

    https://capitalbnews.org/black-growers-convention-charleston/ Decades of USDA Racism Leave Black Farmers Fighting for Equality This week, hundreds of Black farmers and government officials gather to ensure their voices aren’t forgotten. by Aallyah Wright...
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  2. WIA20XX

    The Unlikely Success of Farming Rice in Maryland

  3. FAH1223

    Inflation Reduction Act Rewrites Embattled Black Farmer Relief Program

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/business/economy/inflation-reduction-act-black-farmers.html?referringSource=articleShare Brandon Smith, a farmer in Bastrop, Texas, bought equipment for his ranch when he thought aid would arrive as part of last year’s American Rescue Plan.Credit...Montinique...
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  4. FAH1223

    Inflation Reduction Act Rewrites Embattled Black Farmer Relief Program

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/business/economy/inflation-reduction-act-black-farmers.html?referringSource=articleShare Brandon Smith, a farmer in Bastrop, Texas, bought equipment for his ranch when he thought aid would arrive as part of last year’s American Rescue Plan.Credit...Montinique...
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  5. BiggWebb79

    USDA Moves Forward with Senator Warnock's $4Billion debt relief plan for Black farmes

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  6. BiggWebb79

    Da whites to sue the Biden Adminastration for giving tangibles to Black Farmers...

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  7. Ya' Cousin Cleon

    Black owned farm that teaches black youth beekeeping and agricultural practices

  8. you're NOT "n!ggas"

    How a Top Chicken Company Cut Off Black Farmers, One by One

    How a Top Chicken Company Cut Off Black Farmers, One by One — ProPublica Pretty long read, basically detailed accounts of shyt farmers went thru. Cliffs on the first story: Breh used to be a sheriff's deputy :usure: used his savings to buy a farm in 2002, planned to raise horses and pass it...
  9. Ya' Cousin Cleon

    Farmer John Boyd Jr. Wants African-Americans To Reconnect With Farming

    As an African-American, John Boyd Jr. might not be what Americans imagine when they think of a typical farmer. But Boyd has been farming his entire life, like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him. He grows wheat, corn and soybeans and has cattle at his southwestern Virginia...
  10. Professor Emeritus

    Historical Beefs #8: John Boyd Jr. versus the USDA -- edit: John Boyd Jr. giving TheColi props!

    My previous beefs went back 100+ years. Cause, you know, it’s history. But this one is much more recent. The media been quiet on one of the most consequential civil rights battles of the twenty-first century and I felt obliged to fill a gap. John Boyd Jr. was born in Queens in 1965. Like...
  11. Ya' Cousin Cleon

    There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have they disappeared?

    John Boyd Jr’s grandfather Thomas, the son of a slave, slept with the deed to his farm under his mattress. He worried constantly that his land would be taken away. Twenty miles away and three generations later, Boyd lives on his own 210-acre farm, in a big white colonial house with rows of...
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