Black Farmers Settlement Application 2025. Department of agriculture is extending the deadline for the discrimination financial assistance program to january 13, 2024, to give eligible farmers, ranchers and forest landowners. The bill provides $1.15 billion to african americans left out of a 1999 settlement of a lawsuit, pigford v.

Nearly two years ago, president biden signed the inflation reduction act (ira) section 22007, authorizing compensation for farmers who faced racial discrimination in the. Under section 22007 of the inflation reduction act (ira), usda has provided $2 billion in financial assistance to farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who reported discrimination in.