Source: John Hart, FARM PROGRESS, 12/18/20


North Carolina tobacco is coming off one of the most challenging years it as ever seen, but there is hope on the horizon. That’s one point both North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler and Graham Boyd, executive vice-president of the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina, drove home in an interview with Southeast Farm Press on the commissioner’s farm in Browns Summit, N.C. Dec. 1. “The 2020 crop was the smallest tobacco acreage we planted in North Carolina in 150 years. Our farmers are having to endure enormous challenges on so many fronts, weather...

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