After decades of discrimination against Black farmers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been trying to change course.

“It’s just like going back in time,” Boyd, founder of the National Black Farmers Association, told The Independent. Boyd is a fourth-generation farmer who raises corn, soybeans ...

Heading into the 2025 planting season farmers in the Northwestern Corn Belt are facing some of the same headwinds as the rest of the country from tariffs to lower grain prices and drought.

John Boyd Jr. is a fourth-generation farmer who grows corn, soybeans, wheat, and raises cattle and chickens in southern Virginia. He's also the founder and president of the National Black Farmers ...

They grew crops like corn, sweet potatoes and tobacco, and raised livestock. But when I arrived in Nevada, I wondered, “Where are the Black farmers, and how do they grow anything in the desert?” ...

In 2016, Willis Nelson and his three brothers—third-generation Black farmers—started a farming ... western bank of the Mississippi River, the family farm now spans roughly 4,000 acres and produces ...

Chandigarh: Punjab farmers are increasingly turning to spring maize, or corn, after harvesting potatoes ... seeds at the right price. "There is black marketing of seed varieties like 1890 and ...

A slim black turtleneck is my winter wardrobe staple ... freshly squeezed from navel oranges sold at a nearby farmer’s stand. Back in New York, I picked up an orange from my neighborhood ...

Harvested corn grain is dumped into a grain wagon on Oct. 10 ... considering how long it took for his appointees to be ...