Burley and dark tobacco growers finished 2011 with excellent prices on their contract and auction markets, but an economist at the University of Kentucky cautioned that a downturn as marketing ends in January and February seems possible....More
The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture will host 20 field days and special events at UT AgResearch and Education Centers across the state in 2012....More
When Hiddenite, N.C., farmer Lawrence Branton took a look at his greenhouse filled with dying tobacco transplants his stomach churned and he could envision what would come next, and it was all bad....More
Michael and Nora McCain of Washington County were honored as Kentucky Farm Bureau’s (KFB) 2011 “Outstanding Young Farm Family” during the organization’s 92nd annual meeting in Louisville....More
Reflecting national trends, Kentucky’s farm economy did extremely well in 2011, with farm cash receipts likely to exceed $5 billion for the first time....More
Tobacco farmers know that to properly cure burley, they have to depend on many factors including facilities, management and especially the weather....More
After the wettest Kentucky spring on record, summer delivered much less impressive rainfall; and many parts of the state have slipped into drought status....More
Mergers and rumors of mergers have left some Southeast tobacco growers wondering about the availability and cost of seed for the 2012 growing season....More
The upcoming tobacco marketing season presents growers with just the kind of marketing problem that no grower wants to face: Large competing foreign inventories, many of them very low-priced....More
Georgia Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall has sent a letter to Georgia's Congressional delegation on urging them to oppose a "dear colleague" letter from Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.). ...More
Tobacco acreage in the Southeast isn’t likely to ever reach pre-smoking ban/high tobacco tax level days in the U.S., but in recent years niche markets have provided a good source of income for leaf growers in the Carolinas, Virginia, Kentucky and eastern Tennessee....More
The rapid growth of middle classes in China, India and other countries over the past few years has opened up new markets for Southeastern tobacco....More
North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler will lead a group of cotton, peanut, soybean, tobacco and wheat representatives on a trade mission to Beijing March 6-11....More
