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58,000 applications filed in USDA DFAP process

Black farmer harvests cabbage crop By: John Zippert, Co-Publisher In a recent zoom call with USDA cooperating organizations, a USDA spokesperson said that they had received 62,000 applications in the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP). Of these there were 4,000 duplicate or revised applications, which brought the total applications to 58,000. The DFAP applicants filled […]

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