By Forrest Laws
Farm Progress
The USDA has issued payments to 43,000 persons, most in Mississippi and Alabama, who completed applications detailing how they experienced discrimination in the Agriculture Department’s lending programs before January 2021.
The next highest number of awards to both categories of farmers were 2,926 in Oklahoma, 2,170 in Georgia, 1,584 in Tennessee, 1,456 in Arkansas, 1,376 in North Carolina, 1,369 in South Carolina, 1,311 in Texas, 1,265 in Louisiana and 1,059 in California.