An attorney representing a group of farmers opposed to the Biden administration’s targeted aid for Black farmers and farmers of color plans to ask the court to block USDA from rushing the payments.
Dan Lennington with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty says, “We’re planning on filing something soon.”
Lennington tells Brownfield the paperwork is being drafted to ask a federal judge in Green Bay not to let USDA forgive FSA direct, operating, storage, and other loans or directly pay farmers of color 20% of their loan values back until the court decides the case.
The Wisconsin case is one of two court cases attempting to block the Biden administration from giving preferential treatment to farmers who are not white. Lennington tells Brownfield he’s not alone in trying to stop the quick payments.
