Black Farmers Act 2024. The proposed legislation, the justice for black farmers act (s.300), intends to enact policies to end discrimination within the usda, protect remaining black farmers from losing their land, provide land grants to create a new generation of black farmers and restore the land base that has been lost, and implement systemic reforms to help family. Department of agriculture reminds farmers, ranchers and forest landowners that january 13, 2024, is the deadline to apply for the discrimination financial assistance program (dfap).

The biden administration said on wednesday that it had started disbursing $2 billion to thousands of farmers who have faced discrimination, after years of delays and legal. Department of agriculture (usda) has reached a historic $2.2 billion settlement to compensate black and other minority farmers who faced years of.