Many of the Trump administration’s policies, from tariffs to immigration crackdowns, have negatively impacted farmers throughout the United States.

Muhammad founded Afro Agriculture with Ivori Schley in 2016. The two are both North Carolina A&T State University graduates. They had one main goal when they started the non-profit.

It has a farming population of 8,230 of which 7% identify as Black, 90% identify as white, .8% as other and 1% as more than one race, according to the self-reported 2017 Census of Agriculture.

Black people have largely been expelled from the US agricultural landscape. In 1920, nearly a million Black farmers worked on 41.4 million acres of land, making up a seventh of farm owners. Today ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told the Washington Post that the Trump administration gave only a tiny slice of the funds from its Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) to Black farmers ...

Idaho's production of winter wheat, spring wheat, barley and oats all dropped in 2021. New data from the United States Department of Agriculture shows how this year compares to previous.

Black farms in the U.S. once numbered nearly a million, but now there are fewer than 36,000, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest farm census.

Both white and Black farmers and even conservative white Afrikaner groups denied the Trump administration’s “genocide” and land seizure claims that led the U.S. to cut all financial aid to ...

I’m a Black farmer and I’m fighting to change the white face of agriculture Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones Published October 7, 2022 11:07am Updated October 7, 2022 1:12pm ...

The study builds on a wealth of research that has shown that people of color in America live with more pollution than their white neighbors. Fine particulate matter air pollution, known as PM 2.5 ...

Government data also show that white farmers own the vast majority of South Africa’s farmland — 80% of it, according to the 2017 census of commercial agriculture, which recorded over 40,000 ...

Washington, D.C. (7News) — Black female farmers across the country who marched to the White House in September now have a seat at the table. Dr. Tammy Gray Steele, founder of the National Women ...