Agriculture your username 17 hours ago In response to the United States Department of Agriculture’s filing explaining to the plaintiffs and the court that it is continuing setting up an embattled loan forgiveness program despite it being halted by injunctions in three separate lawsuits, plaintiffs in the Northern District of Texas lawsuit filed a sur-reply claiming that the USDA sending a letter would cause them injury. The plaintiffs are a group of white farmers who claimed the loan forgiveness program through Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act was discriminatory because only farmers of minority races, known as “socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers” in the program, are eligible for the aid. At least five lawsuits have been filed in district courts against this program.