Source: Zachery Eanes, NEWS & OBSERVER, 5/21/19


With tariffs from China hitting their export market, a spate of bad weather hurting crop production and labor becoming harder to find, North Carolina tobacco farmers have faced their share of adversity in the past few years. If things continue as they are, the state’s farmers are expected to plant the smallest tobacco crop since before World War II, Larry Wooten, president of the N.C. Farm Bureau, told The News & Observer. And relief doesn’t appear to be on the horizon, as a simmering trade war between the U.S. and China continues to escalate and a strong U.S. dollar has made it cheaper to buy tobacco from other countries. 

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