Black farmers like Sharon Mallory can finally get some relief after a judge ruled to restore millions of dollars in grants. Earlier this year, the Trump administration yanked the money away from organizations led by and in support of Black farmers. Mallory’s organization, the 2020 Farmers Cooperative, promised to purchase equipment and land and provide food for their communities.
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It was the Great Depression. Early 1930s. United States. More than a thousand mortgages a day were being foreclosed on. Hundreds of thousands of families were losing their homes each year.
Times were hard for everyone. Especially hard for farmers. But neighbors found a way to push back and help their friends in a very creative way. They called it a penny auction.
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Michael Fox: It’s the Great Depression. Early 1930s. United States. More than a thousand mortgages a day are being foreclosed on. Hundreds of thousands of families are losing their homes each year.
Times are hard for everyone. Especially hard for the farmers. See, it’s also the dust bowl. Intense drought. Huge dust storms roll across the midwest. And for farmers, a couple of bad seasons can break you. You borrow some
Advocates for hemp on Wednesday decried a provision of the Republican government funding law signed by President Donald Trump that tightens restrictions on the versatile plant — a move critics say will devastate a $30 billion industry. The new restrictions set a stricter limit on the amount of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — the psychoactive chemical in cannabis — in order to close a loophole…
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