The National Federation of Colored Farmers (NFCF) was a cooperative foundation founded in 1922 by a group of African-American entrepreneurs and attorneys.
[1] Their purpose was to advance efforts to build the capacity of America’s Black farmers, by forming local chapters of buying and selling distribution cooperatives.
Excluded from membership, due to costs, were often sharecroppers which were the largest portion of African American agricultural workers in the south during this time.
The goals of the NFCF were to increase agricultural entrepreneurship profits in African American farmers in the United States by creating local branch cooperatives.
The NFCF also assisted their members by sharing farming tips, political and social issues and other relevant matters via The Modern Farmer.
The main tenets of land ownership and operating though cooperative schemes did not improve the lives of most of the Black farmers at that time and meetings stopped in 1939.
The NFCF was dissolved by the Attorney General in Illinois in 1944 for failure to file an annual report, but their newsletter, The Modern Farmer, remained in publication through January 1949.