More checks coming to tobacco farmers

(Kentucky.com) Nearly 200,000 tobacco farmers in five states will receive a small check by the end of the year and a larger one in June as part of a long-running lawsuit between growers and the Lexington-based Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association.
Fayette Circuit Judge Pamela Goodwine recently gave her approval for $7.3 million to be distributed to past and current burley tobacco growers in Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and West Virginia. Continued

Pictured: "Taking burley tobacco in from the fields after it has been cut to dry and cure in the barn. On Russell Spear's farm near Lexington, Kentucky" by Marion Post Wolcott (Library of Congress).