Tobacco farmers block True Blend shipments

(Tillsonburg News) Half a dozen disgruntled tobacco farmers blocked shipments from leaving a Tillsonburg processing plant Thursday, demanding they get paid $6.6 million before they allow it to leave.
Despite the word of True Blend tobacco company co-owner Grant Sanders, who claims the farmers are being paid, four farmers sitting in trucks outside the Highway 3 plant claim they haven't received a cent since Sept. 23, 2010.
"We haven't been paid by True Blend," said one of the farmers, who refused to give his name. Continued

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