Farmer John Boyd Jr., poses for a portrait during a break from bailing hay at his farm in Boydton, Va., Thursday, May 27, 2021. Documents from a USDA internal review that Boyd provided to The Associated Press show investigators found his operating loan requests were not processed for years, despite explicit instructions from the agency’s state director.
The Virginia farmer who barely was able to keep part of his farm when the USDA threatened to sell it at auction. The Kansas man who lost the land his grandparents once homesteaded. The Arkansas farmer who is holding on by a thread, praying the federal aid will come through in time.“I think discrimination is still pervasive. I think that it’s done in a much subtler way,” Boyd says.
When Kara Boyd brought in another load from the same field, she got a better price. But when her stepfather, who is white, took a load out of the same field, she recalled that he was told: “Man, these are the best beans they’d seen and how many more could he bring them?”Boyd was just 18 years old when he assumed an existing USDA loan when he bought his first farm in the early 1980s. He says walking into his local USDA office was like a return to the Jim Crow era.
Documents from a USDA internal review that Boyd provided to The Associated Press show investigators found his operating loan requests were not processed for years, despite explicit instructions from the agency’s state director. It also found that his account was improperly referred to a credit bureau as delinquent when it should have been restructured, deepening his financial difficulties.
The settlement provided about $1 billion to 15,000 farmers who said USDA unfairly turned them down for loans because of their race between 1981 and 1996. A second round of $1.25 billion stemming from that lawsuit was approved by the court in 2011 for people who were denied earlier payments because they missed filing deadlines.
Little remains today of that farming heritage as even the few Black families who were able to hold on to their land now mostly lease their ground out to white farmers. Nicodemus farmers who once tilled hundreds of acres of farmland no longer actively farm, and much of their ground has been lost over the generations.
The 1980s were especially tough on the Bates farm. They suffered through a drought one year, a late freeze in another and then a hailstorm that wiped out their wheat crop. Their lender foreclosed.
..Wow..🤷♂️🇺🇸🚜
Black farmers trump stabbed you in the back proving a point of his hatered for your service.
Good, I'll farmers are equal,stolen the race BS
All the idiots claiming that the Federal policy being blocked is racist didn't read the article.
seems very close to racism
Wow what misleading headline. There's a reason no one trusts you guys anymore.
Back to the race wars I see ap.
Those who saying this is racism, read the article
they keep the red tape thick on loans for Black farmers in the hopes they go outta biz and lose their land. I'm watching it IRL right here in rural GA.
Stirring up voters, again. White liberals keeping a color person down by victimization.
The way to stop discrimination based on race is to not discriminate based on race.
Farming is a capitalist profession. When u favor one race over another for funding? while most farmers struggle? That's racism
Register as Russia or Republican and you will get it.
Well, most of financial aid goes to the large conglomerate farm owners who are, you guessed it, white. That is systemic racism. Sorry guys but that's the story here. Black farmers don't get the loans to grow their business.
White people….
rolandsmartin Trickery
Racism happened, Jim Crow happened…just like the native Americans, they were cheated out of their land.
What happened? White happened.
Cinianwidger1 They probably did what most farmers have done. They sold Their farms to housing developers. Who put up tract homes. And ruined the farm. All for a quick buck.
Racism.
Always looking hand outs special treatment
NoOneUnscripted 'Black farms in the U.S. plummeted from 925,000 to fewer than 36,000, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest farm census. And only about one in 100 farmers is Black. What happened?'
What happened? China happened
Bill Gates happened, and everyone who sold out let him
They sold it
Conspiracy and collusion by Bankers and those who can field armies of lawyers while buying politicians wholesale.
It's qwhite a mystery 🤔
SaveAmericansInAfghanistan
Better late than never, but propublica was in the forefront of reporting on this:
rolandsmartin Intended to remedy past discrimination in USDA loan programs and provide $1B for outreach and technical assistance for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers — Blacks, Hispanic, Native American and Asian producers. Racist StephenMiller and white farmers sued to stop.
Whites happened
Percentage-wise there's a chance even more white farmers got the boot (in overall numbers, I'm 100% sure they did). It's called industrial farming and it's not at all a bad thing if done right. But necessarily it means WAY less farm owners...
Welfare
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The person who wrote this article has obviously never farmed a day in their lives. This article doesn’t even have any actual facts. The editor shouldn’t even allowed this to get posted.
white people
Sold dat shit fo da loots
Many county tax assessors sold our land without giving proper notification, it happened to my grandfather's land after he died, 79 acres in East Texas.
They've sold off acres of land little by little and donated it to political campaigns that promised them a better future for 100 years and it never paid off? I dunno but sounds right.
Afghan_Situation has exposed that Citizens of US, China and Russia are in a tightest control and rigid containment by their Security Agencies. They're degraded with drugs and evil practices, to enslave and exploit by Corporations and Satanic Societies. World_People are next.
My grandfather had 270 acres in 1950. It is all gone because of taxes. Maybe that’s what happen to black people.
Losing family farms from all races.
saltcity Systemic racism
It was stolen.
Mobs gathered to kill black citizens and then steal their land. Law enforcement did not hold any of the criminals accountable; given they were mob members also. Insurance companies did not pay claims as well. E.g. KKK, Greenwood massacre, Wilmington, etc.
They became Democrats and now depend on government welfare more than any other group. Not the brightest group of slackers. Lol
40% of Americans were farmers in 1900, now it's 1%
Unfair inheritance tax laws?
Bernie Sanders taught them they didn’t have to work, everything is free!!!
I think South Africa has changed from a developed country to a poor country in the past two decades.
They wanted to do other jobs and we can’t force them to keep farming…
Mechanization of farming and corporatization of agricultural industry. Do you have another stupid question?