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Black farmers represent less than 2% of all growers, and under the Trump administration, programs designed to help support them have been cut. The Gulf States Newsroom's Drew Hawkins went to a meeting of Black farmers to find out how they've been affected this year and if the relief, when it comes, will be enough.
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DREW HAWKINS, BYLINE: The National Black Growers Council's annual meeting kicked off this week in New Orleans, just a few days after the Trump administration announced billions in tariff relief funding. James Davis drove down from north Louisiana. He's a third-generation row crop farmer, and he calls the Trump administration's program a bailout and says that even with it, some farmers may still go out of business.
JAMES DAVIS: It's not enough.
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