black farmers

Farming is a demanding job saddled with stressors like increasingly unpredictable weather, rising input costs and changing commodity prices. On top of those issues, producers of color deal with the impacts of racism, which is linked to mental health conditions like depression and PTSD.

After debt relief promised under the American Rescue Plan Act was repealed under a section of the Inflation Reduction Act, farmers of color are suing the U.S government.

For the first time, researchers have assigned a value to the Black-owned farmland lost over the past century.

There’s a glaring disparity issue in industrial hemp production — just 6% of producers are Black. A couple in Missouri hopes to create the state’s first Black-owned hemp processing site.

The 143rd annual homecoming celebration recently took place in Nicodemus, the last remaining African American settlement west of the Mississippi River.

The federal government plans to send payments to Black farmers to compensate for loans and aid they lost out on during generations of discrimination. In Nicodemus, Kansas, farmers say the help comes too late.

John Boyd Jr. believes Black farmers are going extinct. As the president of the National Black Farmers Association and a farmer in Virginia, he’s been...

It’s a cold February afternoon, and Alvin Lee’s cows are hungry. He says he has to put three or four bales of hay out every other day, and he only has...

For Nathan Bradford Jr., work doesn’t end after his full-time job. When he’s not working at a natural gas processing plant, he’s ranching in Bristow,...

The number of black farmers in the U.S. is shrinking — down to less than 2% of total farmers — and many are losing their land. Members of the Kansas...