A Big Burley Crop Heads to Market

 

(Tobacco Farmer Newsletter) Jerry Rankin, owner of Farmers Warehouse in Danville, Ky., is worried about the supply/demand situation, "Before the bad weather at the end of the season, we were looking at maybe 28 million pounds of burley with no home. Now, because of the weather, it looks like more like 18 to 20 million pounds, but that is still enough that prices may not be too good." The Farmers Warehouse Tobacco will open Tuesday before Thanksgiving at 9:30 a.m., and most others will open that week or soon after. Continued