BURLEY EXPECTATIONS CONTINUE TO DROP

(Tobacco Farmer Newsletter) No additional supplies of burley are likely to show up between now and when marketing winds up in a few weeks, so the 2020 crop will be a small one. Jerry Rankin, farmer and warehouseman from Danville, Ky., says he estimates Kentucky production at 41 to 42 million pounds, a little less than he estimated in early November. Continued