Va. tobacco farmers facing new demands

(Richmond Times Dispatch) As he watched his 850-pound bales of flue-cured tobacco move through the grading and sales process at Philip Morris USA's tobacco receiving station here, Donnie Clayton summed up the 2010 season. "It was a tough, hot year," said Clayton, a Person County, N.C., farmer and one of more than 200 tobacco growers in North Carolina and Virginia who deliver their cured leaf to the Danville receiving station, a former tobacco auction warehouse. Continued

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