these large companies, purdue, tyson, start as family farms. >> john deer is number 87 on the fortunehad $64 billion worth of revenue in 2017. and cargill is the largest private company in the u.s. all started as family organizations. >> my great grandmother grew blueberries and she used to create jam. imagine if she could have gotten usda loans in 1920 to turn that into a growing business. instead, the usda said, we're not going to give loans to black people. >> i decided to go get a loan. >> and you don't have generational wealth, my uncle gave me a small loan of $100,000. >> big farmers were the ones that could loan people money. pay for college tuition. >> when the farmers succeeded. they employed other people. they put their money into the local economy, started companies, sent their kids to college. american dream stuff. >> take like 1920, where we have around 920,000 black farmers in the country. until today, we have 48,000. and so we went from owning 14% of the country in terms of land mass in 1920 -- >> 14% of the country is around the percentage of black people in this count