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With Federal Relief on the Horizon, Black Farmers Worry It Won’t Come Soon Enough
Black farmers, comprising less than 2% of U.S. farmers, face urgent financial challenges as relief payments may not arrive before immediate bills are due, experts say.
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With federal relief on the horizon, Black farmers worry it won’t come soon enough
NEW ORLEANS - James Davis had the best year in his entire farming career this year.The third-generation Black row crop farmer estimated picking almost 1,300 pounds of cotton, an average of 50 bushels of soybeans, and an average of around 155 bushels of corn on 2,500 acres of his farmland in northeast Louisiana.But with U.S. commodities facing steep retaliatory tariffs overseas, he says he and many other farmers can’t sell their crops for enough …
·Portland, United States
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