Connecticut River Valley tobacco waiting on buyers

(masslive.com) After a bumper summer tobacco harvest - the first in two years - local broadleaf tobacco, used as cigar wrappers, is cured and ready for sale. All that's missing are the buyers.
Alan Sanderson Jr. of Fairview Farm in Whately said that buyers from the three or four cigar companies that purchase tobacco from Massachusetts and Connecticut growers have not arrived at their usual time this year.
Sanderson said that most of the crop sales are completed by the end of November. Continued

Pictured: Tobacco near Windsor Locks, Connecticut, 1937 (Edwin Locke/Library of Congress).