with his original farm located in Desert Hot Springs. But he might be the only Black date farmer in the entirety of the United States, according to the Black Farmers Index. Cobb said there are few ...

According to the USDA, Texas is home to the highest number of Black farmers in the U.S. with more than 11,000 Black farmers.

Black farmers account for only 1.4% of all U.S. farmers, farm only 0.5% of the country’s farmland and generate only 0.4% of total U.S. agricultural sales every year. In contrast, about 14% of ...