Black Farmers operate at 70% of US peer-level farm revenuewith a 14% operating margin gap versus their peers, before government payments
While the role of the agriculture economy has grown, the share of Black farmers in the United States has declined over the last century.
Today, just 1.4% of farmers identify as Black or mixed race compared with about 14% 100 years ago. Representing less than 0.5 percent of total US farm sales
