Posts
(Lynchburg News Advance) As domestic cigarette consumption and production declines, local farmers hope overseas demand will enable them to grow more tobacco, but they worry if they’ll get the price they need to cover their expenses.
About 165 people attended the annual flue-cured tobacco production meeting at Chatham High School on Thursday night.
Many farmers talked about the possibility of a firm contracting 100 million pounds of flue-cured tobacco for China. Continued
Photo: Queen of the trotting turf tobacco. Manufactured by Seth Halsey, Lynchburg, Va, circa 1859. (Library of Congress)
No comments:
Post a Comment