Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 9/24/18

Visitors from seven countries recently learned about tobacco grown in Virginia and North Carolina, which some say is the best in the world. Representatives from Bulgaria, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam, along with some U.S. tobacco buyers, visited the Southside Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center and a tobacco farm Sept. 12. The visits were part of Tobacco Associates Inc.’s 2018 International U.S. Leaf Grading School. Tobacco Associates is a trade organization funded by U.S. tobacco growers to promote their products.

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