Farmer John Boyd Jr. Wants African-Americans To Reconnect With Farming

Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/14/466565785/farmer-john-boyd-jr-wants-african-americans-to-reconnect-with-farming?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=thesalt

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John Boyd Jr., with his father.

John Boyd Jr., with his father.

Fred Watkins /Courtesy of John Boyd Jr.

As an African-American, John Boyd Jr. might not be what Americans imagine when they think of a typical farmer. But Boyd has been farming his entire life, like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him. He grows wheat, corn, soybean and has cattle at his southwestern…

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