Tobacco growers must grow more leaf for less in 2015

 

(Southeast Farm Press) It was a tense winter for tobacco farmers, as contracts for the 2015 crop were very difficult to obtain. Prices were down, too, putting growers in the position of needing to make the most tobacco possible at lowest realistic production cost.
So while most growers had to think hard about making any big capital expenditure, you saw many of them at the trade shows in January looking for machinery or supplies that could help them grow more leaf for less. Continued