Source: Drew C. Wilson, WILSON TIMES, 8/22/18


It sounded like the old days in Wilson on Wednesday. Tobacco buyers called out bids as they walked along bales of tobacco with growers keenly listening to prices at a pair of auctions. The live auction, the primary means of selling tobacco for more than a century, has been a rare format ever since the tobacco buyout in 2004.

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