Source: SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 11/27/13

• The Tobacco Transition Payment Program last payment is scheduled for January 2014. As of 2012, $4.11 billion had been paid directly to tobacco growers and $5.85 billion directly to former quota owners.
• Concerns have been raised that as soon as the payments end there will be a large exodus of tobacco producers.

For more of this story, Click here.