When the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was signed on March 11, 2021, an estimated 16,000 farmers and ranchers of color were informed by the USDA’s Farm...
In an explanation of the debt relief, the U.S. Department of Agriculture acknowledges its history of systemic discrimination toward these producers, which was “sometimes overt and sometimes through deeply embedded rules and policies” since its founding in 1862.
A month later, the brothers received a 30-day notice that their next payment was in fact still due. In order to make the payment on time, they sold back their recently purchased livestock. “Luckily, two cows had babies,” Jonathan reports, but he would’ve preferred to have kept the livestock. Jonathan says that their local USDA offices in Forney and Waxahachie have always been extremely helpful, and that their representatives seemed genuinely disappointed when delivering the news that payments on their $80,000 direct loan were still due.
“If you’re doing business, you want to own the land that produces your assets, because someone could always take it away from you.”
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