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Oct 26
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578. John Boyd, Jr. on the Fight for the...

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On Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg, Dani speaks with John Boyd, Jr., a fourth-generation farmer, advocate and the Founder and President of the National Black Farmers Association. They discuss the strain that trade policies and supply chain disruptions are placing on farmers, what makes the challenges today worse than the farm crisis of the 1980s, and why the upcoming midterm elections are so important to the future of agriculture in the United States.

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