Black farmers await debt relief after some say funding is racially discriminatory
Funding is at a standstill after multiple federal judges blocked farmers of color from getting debt relief payments.
Posted — Updated"People didn’t do this to themselves," he said. "The Department of Agriculture, through the Farm Service Agency, did this to the farmers by slowing down the process of making the loans and not getting the loans in ample times," he said.
Grant says he’s seen firsthand how Black farmers suffer because of the lack of debt relief funding.
As far as the future of farming, Grant said the younger generations are not following in their parents or grandparents footsteps.
"We’ve had to change careers, our children don’t want to go into farming," he said. "If we get them off to college they don’t want to return to the rural area."
The USDA tells politico it will continue to defend the ability to deliver debt relief to socially disadvantaged borrowers as soon as possible.
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