Friday, July 12, 2013

Tobacco farmers say rain is ruining their crops

 

STANFORD, Ky. (WKYT) With tobacco, green is good, yellow is bad.
“It is disheartening really, you put all this work into it, then you come down here and you have nothing,” said farmer Mack Hulett.
Hulett, a full time farmer, planted several thousand acres of tobacco.
"I'm going to say there's probably an 80% loss there anyway,” he said, pointing to his crop planted north of Stanford. Continued

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