STATEMENT BY JOHN W. BOYD, JR.
 
“A Bush Administration budget can’t get much worse for Black farmers. The impact on black farmers of the cuts in the farm subsidy programs by the Bush Administration will be relatively minor. Black farmer have had little opportunity to receive federal subsidies for decades. For years we have been protesting the lack of subsidy payments to Black farmers who work equally as hard to deliver food to our nation. Today Black farmers receive less than one tenth of one percent in total farm subsidy payouts.
 
These cuts will not change the fact that Black farmers continue to struggle to remain on our farms.
 
Black farmers struggle to get our goods to market and get a fair price for the product of our work. We have always supported fair price for our commodities that's all we have ever requested is fair treatment from the United States Department of Agriculture.”