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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…