willard tillman: they trust me. i don't take dirty water to them.od for them, i tell them yes. if it's not good for them, i tell them no. leroy: survive with these cows. fred: with the help of tillman's group, leroy brinkley enrolled in a program last year called care, conservation and agriculture reach everyone. leroy: those blackbirds, you see how they started? fred: it paid him $70 an acre for 40 acres, which he used to partner with a local elementary student to bring goats to graze on the invasive species. leroy: want to try to get this covered with a cover crop. fred: this year he has participating again, getting support to plant more grass for his herd to graze on. leroy: fifteen hundred dollars in seed ought to get it. >> yes, well, time, yes, for your time. leroy: yes. fred: sarah blaney runs the oklahoma association of conservation districts, which administers the admittedly modest care program. sarah blaney: our specific program is smaller, but our hope is that this is maybe the first introduction to that process and makes them a little bi

correspondent: willard tillman's organization is a resource that connects minority farmers to complexrm programs. he says there is a rare opportunity to bring these farmers into the system from which they felt alienated. >> if they don't understand it, they're not going to mess with it, so that is where we come in. correspondent: they don't trust the government. >> they trust me. i don't take dirty water to them. if it is good for them i tell him. correspondent: with the help of the group leroy brinkley , enrolled in a program last year called care: conservation and agriculture reach everyone. >> those blackberries, you see how they started? correspondent: it paid him $70 dollars an acre for forty acres, which he used to partner with a local elementary student to bring goats to graze on the invasive species. >> want to try to getiscovered with a cover crop. correspondent: this year he has participating again getting support to plant more grass for his herd to graze on. >> $1500 in seed ought to get it. >> yeah. correspondent: sarah blaney runs the oklahoma association of conservation