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As Pastor Bennie Brown sat in the bright red pews of St. James Missionary Baptist, just a few feet away from the podium where ...
In the United States, Black farmers are an underrepresented group. According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, 35,470 farms are Black-owned, out of more than 2 million total farms. The majority of ...
The Biden administration hopes changes to farming can help achieve its climate agenda. The Department of Agriculture has an additional goal: improving service to Black and other underserved farmers.
Many of the Trump administration’s policies, from tariffs to immigration crackdowns, have negatively impacted farmers throughout the United States.
Black farmers account for only 1.4% of all U.S. farmers, farm only 0.5% of the country’s farmland and generate only 0.4% of total U.S. agricultural sales every year.
Local offices with the Department of Agriculture would also deny or delay loans to Black farmers, documented in a series of government reports starting in the 1960s. In 1920, Black-run farms were ...
Black Americans were, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major force in agriculture. Since then, policies have systematically pushed Black farmers out of American agriculture, and ...
Black farmers account for only 1.4% of all U.S. farmers, farm only 0.5% of the country’s farmland and generate only 0.4% of total U.S. agricultural sales every year.
SPENCER, Okla. (KFOR) — Black farmers make up less than 2% of all farmers in the US, and that number continues to decline. However, there is hope on the horizon as Black farmers continue to push ...
Here’s a look at black farmers based on 2012 census data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture: 44,629 black farmers in the U.S. 1.4 percent of the nation’s farmers ...
The Hills are part of a community of Black farmers in the Rocky Mount area who are doing atypical work to breathe life back into Black agriculture in the South. Friends of theirs, such as Dallas ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that farmers who identified as Black or Black in combination with another race accounted for just 1.4 percent of the approximately 3.4 million ...