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Tony Brown Oral History<\/span><\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][page_submenu alignment=”center” sticky=”true” bg_color=”#008542″ link_color=”#ffffff”][page_link link_url=”https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/manuscripts-and-guides\/” title=”Manuscripts & Subject Guides<\/strong>” id=”1681936521472-5″ tab_id=”1681936521473-1″] [\/page_link][page_link link_url=”https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/guides-to-the-collection-page\/” title=”Collections Portal<\/strong>” id=”1681936521482-5″ tab_id=”1681936521483-1″] [\/page_link][page_link title=”Visit<\/strong>” id=”1681936529982-3″ tab_id=”1681936529982-8″ link_url=”https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/departments\/archives-museum\/visit\/”][\/page_link][page_link title=”Make a Request<\/strong>” id=”1681936530589-5″ tab_id=”1681936530590-3″ link_url=”https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/departments\/archives-museum\/requests\/”][\/page_link][page_link title=”About Us<\/strong>” id=”1681936532104-10″ tab_id=”1681936532106-2″ link_url=”https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/departments-archives-museum-about-us\/”][\/page_link][page_link title=”Yearbooks Online<\/strong>” id=”1681936533466-4″ tab_id=”1681936533467-5″ link_url=”https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/departments\/archives-museum\/yearbooks-alumni-magazines-delta-state-histories\/”][\/page_link][\/page_submenu][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Oral History Interview with Tony Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interviewer:\u00a0 Kimberly Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 13, 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n

Transcribed by W. Ray<\/strong><\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0 I\u2019m Kimberly Brown and it is November 13th and I\u2019m here with Tony Brown, a black farmer here in the Delta and we are at his mother\u2019s home here in Merigold,<\/p>\n

Mississippi.\u00a0 Could you please tell me your full name?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tony Danell Brown.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Could you tell me about when you were born?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 September 5, 1965.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And can you tell me where you were born?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 About three miles west of Merigold.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And can you tell me about your parents.<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My father, Earnest Brown, is deceased.\u00a0 My mother, Rudell Brown, lives here in Merigold.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Did either of your parents do any farming?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My father worked on a farm early in his career.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Did you grow up on a farm?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first three years I did.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How many siblings do you have?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Six of us.\u00a0 Five boys and one girl.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And can you tell me a little about them?<\/p>\n

(Phone rings)<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, do any of your siblings do any farming?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you have any other family members who do farm currently?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I have an uncle that farms here in the area also.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And does your family own the land that you farm?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, I lease all of the farmland.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Who do you lease your land from?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have three landlords.\u00a0 (inaudible)<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And how much land approximately would you say that you are renting?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three hundred acres.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And what type of crops do you raise?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Right now soybeans and wheat (inaudible)<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Where is the land located?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just east of Merigold, and some in Mound Bayou and west of Mound Bayou.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And how is it that you came to have the land that you are renting right now?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well I started off farming with my uncle and as time gradually went by I branched off on my own and picked up pieces of land here and then I started with a friend of mine (inaudible) the land and put our farms together.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And do you know any of the history of the land that you farm?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I know that Mr. Bennie Lee (inaudible) he raised cotton and soybeans probably thirty-five or forty years and raised a family off his land and the Hooper family has been in the family for years from his grandfather on down and I know that (inaudible) and he raised his family on that land.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you know if any of that land was ever used in sharecropping or tenant farming?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m not real sure.\u00a0 I know Mr. Jones purchased his land in the mid 1960\u2019s, prior to that I don\u2019t have any knowledge about that land.\u00a0 And the Hooper land it goes back to his grandfather, and before that I really couldn\u2019t say.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You mentioned that Mr. Bennie Jones \u2013<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Raised soybeans?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well he was a cotton farmer and he also raised soybeans?<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Any of the other landowners that you rent from, do you know what they might have raised?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Hooper Family, like I said, raised mostly cotton.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How do you think that technology has changed what you (inaudible) over time?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, technology has come a long way since I started farming.\u00a0 With the new technology that they have now, we are producing higher yields; we have the Roundup that they came out with, we are much better able to control weeds and overall have a clean field which also help produce a better crop.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, what changes personally have you had to make over time to make your farm successful?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, one thing like I say, being able to have a clean field, but I think the most important thing, change that I made, was the no-till ground; preparing the ground in the fall; just come in and plant and plant early is the key to improving my farm.\u00a0 Planting with the earlier group of soybeans, you are able to catch most of the earlier rains and you make a better crop.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You mentioned that you have an uncle that does some farming and that \u2013 do you know if you have any family that has done any farming anywhere other than inside the Delta?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 I think on my mother\u2019s side of the family came down from Cary, MS and Anguilla and I think they did some farming there, but as far as outside the Delta, I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The land that you currently rent, do you know how it has been divided over time?<\/p>\n

Are you the only lessee, or do they lease certain acreage to different individuals?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, as of right now, I lease all of Mr. Jones land and me and Barry lease all of his family\u2019s land together and I lease all of Mr. Perry\u2019s land.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are there any buildings on the land, either that were originally there, or any that you put there yourself?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, we have a storage shed at our headquarters.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Can you tell me a little bit about the type of equipment that you use to run your land?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, we have four tractors, two combines and all the other field equipment that we need to break and work the ground with.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And do you hire any additional help, aside from yourself and your partner?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, me and Barry do all the work.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, what would you say the value is of the land is that you currently lease?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dry land, now I would say would go anywhere between a thousand and fifteen hundred dollars an acre.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you see a time when you will no longer want to farm the land that you currently farm?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As of right now, I don\u2019t.\u00a0 I\u2019m really happy with the land that I have got.\u00a0 Right now, I can\u2019t foresee it right now.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you \u2013 have you utilized either in the past or currently, any assistance to continue farming like co-ops, FSA programs or other USDA programs?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, we are in the farm service agency programs and do receive subsidies off our base off our crops.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How would you say that race has affected your farm?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I would say earlier in my career when I was first getting started and trying to obtain loans through the USDA we have had some problems.\u00a0 Not being able to get funding that we needed at that time, which you know, later brought out the black farmers\u2019 lawsuit.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And did you participate in that personally?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I did.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And this kind of ties to my previous question.\u00a0 How do you think that the civil rights movement overall has affected the atmosphere of farming here in the Delta?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, I really can\u2019t tell whether the civil rights affected farming because we have always had black farmers.\u00a0 Matter of fact, we had more black farmers before the civil rights so I don\u2019t think the civil rights really played a major part or affected the farming one way or the other.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how much.\u00a0 It may have, it was kind of before my time.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You said you spent maybe the first three years of your life living on a farm?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What would be your most memorable moment, either growing up on the farm, or being a farmer?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Repeat that now.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Most memorable moment that you had in your early years on the farm or in the years since you have been farming land.<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well in the early years I remember living out there and I remember my father working out there on the farm west of Merigold.\u00a0 And I will always remember in the evening time as he was about to get off from work he would come by the house on the tractor and he would always stop and I would get on the tractor and he would let me drive the tractor on back to the shop.\u00a0 So that is probably the most memorable thing that I can remember on the farm.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 What has been your motivation to keep farming?\u00a0 What is it about farming that you really enjoy?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, farming is something that you have to enjoy doing.\u00a0 Because you know, it is some hard times in farming.\u00a0 Of course we have some good times.\u00a0 You just have to love doing it. It gets in your blood.\u00a0 Just being out there and smelling the dirt. It is just something that is within you that keeps you driving and keeps you in it.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you think that farming here in the Delta is more difficult than it would be anywhere else in the country?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 Because we all go through difficult times in each region, either here in the Delta or in the hills or in the Midwest.\u00a0 At some point you know we all (inaudible).\u00a0 For instance this year here in the Delta we ran into a drought problem.\u00a0 So I think everybody is affected one way or the other so I don\u2019t think it is any different.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Have you ever considered farming anything other than the products that you farm, such as maybe doing vegetables and crops like that?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I thought about it briefly.\u00a0 When sweet potatoes first came out I thought about it.\u00a0 I thought about little vegetables.\u00a0 But I thought I would stick with it \u2013 I prefer what I am doing.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you mentioned sweet potatoes and I talked with somebody about that before.\u00a0 Are they still operating those fields?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes they are.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And do you think that they are having some success in doing so?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I really don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t talked with anybody.\u00a0 I did see in the last few weeks they were getting sweet potatoes out of the field.\u00a0 As far as their production and who they contract with, I don\u2019t know how they are doing.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you know of any other black farmers here in the Delta who farm products like vegetables and those type of things?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes we have several farmers at Mound Bayou that does sweet potatoes.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you know who those individuals are?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Louis Sanders is one.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And if there was anything that you could change about the Delta that you think that would improve your ability to be successful as a farmer, what would that be?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well I think success depends on the individual, maybe, I don\u2019t know, cause I farm part time, it\u2019s an outside thing for me.\u00a0 I have a full time job.\u00a0 So it\u2019s something you know that you have to work at.\u00a0 You set goals and you try to get to a point where you want to be at.\u00a0 Like I say, we have come a long ways with farming.\u00a0 It\u2019s ups and downs like anything else.\u00a0 Like now you know, we have a down period with the drought.\u00a0 We need help from the federal government now because we have a disaster.\u00a0 But everything pretty much depends on the decisions making that an individual makes.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you have any children?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Can you tell me a little bit about them?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes I have an older step son which is 22.\u00a0 A second older step son which is 20 and I have a baby son that is 12.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you think any of your children will continue on your legacy in farming?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 At first I thought my baby did.\u00a0 When he was smaller he loved getting out there on a tractor or combine.\u00a0 But now he\u2019s into sports and he don\u2019t even mention farming any more.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well maybe he will change his mind when he gets older.\u00a0 Is there anything else that you would like to add here today?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well the only thing I would love to see an increase in more black farmers because we have lost a lot of black farmers over the years and a lot of black farmers have lost their land over the years and I would love to see that change.\u00a0 You know everybody you know just want to have a level playing field.\u00a0 I think everybody would get out there and work hard and all we \u2013 they\u2019ll ask for is just a level playing field.\u00a0 But like I say, things have changed, things have come a long way.\u00a0 The local farm service office here have given us a great deal of help; they will work with us.\u00a0 So things are getting much better.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And when you say a lot of black farmers here have lost their land, how do you<\/p>\n

mean?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well over the years blacks owned a lot of land here in the Delta and when they would go borrow money from the whites or whatever, most of the time they would put their money up and a lot of them lost their land over little small amounts of money.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s interesting.\u00a0 Do you see yourself farming well into retirement from your regular job?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s my goal.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I\u2019m working toward right now.\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to build my farm up to a certain area where I want to be at by the time I retire over the next ten or twelve years.\u00a0 I want to be where I want to be at so I can retire and farm full time hopefully if things go well.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And is there anything else that you would like to add to this interview?<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, I think that is about covers it as far as me personally.<\/p>\n

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KB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alright, well I want to thank you so much for your time today and I appreciate your help.<\/p>\n

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TB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Thank you.\u00a0 Now who\u2019s going to look at that?<\/p>\n

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