Advocates Call for Shift in US Agriculture Policy to Benefit Black Farmers

Writing in the New York Times, Hiroko Tabuchi and Nadja Popovich profile Sedrick Rowe, a farmer growing organic peanuts in southwest Georgia. Georgia, of course, is known for peanut farming; the US even elected a Georgia peanut farmer as president. What makes Rowe’s two plots—a modest 30 acres—noteworthy, however, is that he is a Black farmer in a state that once had tens of thousands of Black farmers but now has very few....
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