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N FLA | Yes. Flue cured. They talked about the history at the meeting. Said some big numbers like 1800 growers in the in the county in the 60s I think? I can't recall the statistics. I thought he said 7000 in the neighboring county. Tobacco WAS farming for a long time here. Though this was before my time. Each county has 1-2 growers left. Growing 30 or 40 acres. Two farmers got into organic tobacco on 10 acres each last year. One did great, one lost the crop. But that had a lot to do with the buyers didn't need it. He also planted too late, and this organic stuff is unforgiving. Guys haven't been able to get an organic contract yet this yeqr, so the tables have even turned on that. I wish that was a market a beginner could get into. Doesn't take a lot of barns for 10 acres, and they're talking $8-10k per acre gross as I understand.
Georgia tobacco specialist went through supply and demand, and world market appears to be flooded with supply. | |
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Tobacco Market Outlook from the Burley Co-Op Meeting
