Grower plans to take tobacco appeal to court

(Better Farming) A Middlesex County tobacco grower who claims the right to grow his allotted quota even though the system that administered it is dismantled, says he’s prepared to take his claim to Ontario’s courts.
“They cannot take our licenses back without following legal procedure,” says Hugh Gubbels who farms tobacco, corn, soybeans, wheat and cattle with his brother Joe near Delaware. ... The Gubbels asserted that they were entitled to grow their quota of 418,000 pounds or about 160 acres of tobacco, because they rejected a federal buyout in 2009. Continued

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