Alphonso Hooks and his one full-time employee grow leafy vegetables, watermelon, cantaloupe and corn in rural Macon County. They cut hay and raise around 40 heads of cattle, along with some goats and chickens. Hooks, who’s 59 years old, has been farming virtually all of his life and says he regularly has faced discrimination as a black farmer. He was…
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