Tobacco auctions making comeback in U.S.

 

(Southeast Farm Press) The legendary cry of the tobacco auctioneer ― largely silenced since the quota buyout of 2004 ― is beginning to be heard once again in the leaf-producing states. Auctions have regained a place in marketing of the crop.
That was clear on the last Tuesday in October, when a total of 265,000 pounds of flue-cured and a little burley moved into the trade in an auction held in the Old Belt Tobacco Sales warehouse in Rural Hall, N.C. Continued