Tobacco buyers looking for quality leaf

(Southeast Farm Press) The upcoming tobacco marketing season presents growers with just the kind of marketing problem that no grower wants to face: Large competing foreign inventories, many of them very low-priced.
But there may be a way to get around the problem if you take steps to produce high quality leaf. That is certainly what buyers are going to be looking for.
“The world is awash in flue-cured, but it is poor-quality flue-cured,” said Blake Brown, North Carolina Extension economist, at the U.S. Tobacco Forum in June. Continued