John Boyd (farmer)
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John Boyd (farmer)
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John Wesley Boyd Jr. is an African-American farmer, civil rights activist and the founder of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA). He owns and operates Boyd Farms, which has 1,500-acre (6.1 km) across three farms in Baskerville, Virginia where he grows soybean, corn and wheat and currently raises one hundred and fifty head of beef cattle. For 14 years Boyd was a chicken farmer in a Perdue Farms breeder program. He was also a tobacco farmer for many years.
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American activist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(farmer)
date created:
2008-11-10T21:22:44Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T19:01:56Z
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