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ck4829

(35,070 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:11 AM Feb 2021

Trump administration 'worst in history for Black farmers': National Black Farmers Association pres

Democratic Senators introduced bills to help minority farmers this week, as the new Agriculture Secretary nominee pledges to “root out generations of systemic racism” at that agency.

For decades, Black and Hispanic farmers have said they were denied federal loans and grants given to white farmers. But this discrimination peaked during the years of Trump administration, John Boyd, founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, told Yahoo Finance Live in an interview on Wednesday.

“The Trump Administration has been the worst administration in history for black farmers," Boyd said. "We have been totally shut out of the farm subsidy program, farm ownership laws, from rural development. We have been totally shut out of these programs.”

Government aid to farmers spiked during the Trump administration, reaching a record of $46 billion in 2020, according to NPR. And the prior year, America’s farmers received $22 billion, the highest level of subsidies in 14 years, NPR reported. But Black farmers say they’ve been left behind. In July 2019, the nonprofit news site The Counter reported, citing documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, that nearly 100% of Trump’s trade war bailout went to white farmers.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/national-black-farmers-association-john-boyd-on-trump-administration-162511816.html

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Trump administration 'worst in history for Black farmers': National Black Farmers Association pres (Original Post) ck4829 Feb 2021 OP
How much did these 5 farms get? safeinOhio Feb 2021 #1
Ya think? . . . Iliyah Feb 2021 #2
What do you expect from a Nazi president? malaise Feb 2021 #3

safeinOhio

(32,675 posts)
1. How much did these 5 farms get?
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:20 AM
Feb 2021

5. SIMPLOT FAMILY - 82,500 FARMLAND ACRES
4. BOSWELL FAMILY - 150,000 FARMLAND ACRES
3. FANJUL FAMILY - 152,000 FARMLAND ACRES
1. OFFUTT FAMILY - 190,000 FARMLAND ACRES
1.STEWART & LYNDA RESNICK - 190,000 FARMLAND ACRES

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