Higher than expected Ontario tobacco harvest in 2014

 

(Toronto Sun) SIMCOE, Ont. — Ontario tobacco growers defied the odds to deliver a higher-than-expected harvest of the 2014 crop.
With the last deliveries in February posted by contracting buyers, the Ontario Flue-cured Tobacco Growers' Marketing Board reports that 241 licensed growers in Norfolk, Brant, Oxford, Elgin and Middlesex counties delivered slightly more than 61 million pounds of leaf grown last summer on 21,670 approved acres. Continued