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Heirs’ Property: The Legal Issue That Has Cost Black Farmers $326 Billion

The Equation

In doing research on this piece, I got a sponsored ad link on Google pointing me to resources for how to force the sale of real estate in my state of Florida. Small and midsize farmers often farm more sustainably than industrial operations by avoiding monocropping and high fertilizer inputs, while serving local communities.

Farming 95
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Young Farmers’ Analysis of the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024

National Young Farmers Coalition

In 2018, we fought for FSA Direct Farm Ownership loan caps to be raised to $600,000 from the previous limit of $300,000, which was no longer meeting farmers’ needs in the real estate market. 2202) YELLOW FLAG Adds “precision agriculture” to the Conservation Title and creates practices in EQIP. 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503).

Food 40
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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. I was young, I was in my 20s. It really is modern-day sharecropping.