Will 2010 tobacco crop find a home?

(Southeast Farm Press) “We are looking at cuts in contracts of about a fifth, but farmers here seem to be planting about the same amount as last year,” says Hassel Brown, East Bend, N.C., which is near Winston-Salem. “We are going to have to be resourceful in selling this crop.”
One leaf dealer, Rick Smith of Independent Leaf in Wilson, N.C., estimated in May that there will be about 50 million pounds of flue-cured tobacco grown off contract. Continued

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