President of the National Black Farmer’s Association John Boyd stands in his fields in Baskerville, Va. He says the USDA’s relief program is “like the fox watching the hen house.” Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
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Farmers of color are set to get some unprecedented debt relief starting this month from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The latest federal COVID aid package includes an estimated $4 billion for the USDA to wipe away these farmers’ debts.
It’s an unprecedented Congressional mandate to make up for the damage that decades of lending discrimination has had on farmers of color. The distrust runs so deep that the department h…
Read the full article at: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/04/1003313657/the-usda-is-set-to-give-black-farmers-debt-relief-theyve-heard-that-one-before
