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Daryl Minton throws chicken feed into a yard where the chickens roam at the Triple J Farm in Windsor, N.Y., Saturday, August 8, 2020. Minton lives and works on the farm his grandfather, James Minton, Sr., bought a decade ago. (Heather Ainsworth/NPR)
Daryl Minton throws chicken feed into a yard where the chickens roam at the Triple J Farm in Windsor, N.Y., Saturday, August 8, 2020. Minton lives and works on the farm his grandfather, James Minton, Sr., bought a decade ago. (Heather Ainsworth/NPR)
Daryl Minton throws chicken feed into a yard where the chickens roam at the Triple J Farm in Windsor, N.Y., Saturday, August 8, 2020. Minton lives and works on the farm his grandfather, James Minton, Sr., bought a decade ago. (Heather Ainsworth/NPR)
Airdate: Thursday, January 13, 2022
Fourteen percent of American farmers were Black a century ago. Today, only 1.4% of farmers are African-American.
An organization that is trying to change that and help other minorities become part of the agriculture industry is MANRRS – Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences.
Derek James is the MANRRS advisor and Coordinator of Multicultural Programs at Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. He joins us on Thursday’s Smart Talk.
The days of journalism’s one-way street of simply producing stories for the public have long been over. Now, it’s time to find better ways to interact with you and ensure we meet your high standards of what a credible media organization should be.