What Lies Ahead for Tobacco in 2015?

 

(Tobacco Farmer Newsletter) FLUE-CURED "The crop this past season was not a vintage one, but it was very useable," says Rick Smith, president of Independent Leaf Tobacco Co., Wilson, N.C. "It was not quite as big as we thought--I am saying 525 million pounds. There was more in the fields, but the hurricane, wet weather and frost lowered production considerably, especially in the Old Belt." Continued