Market Farming

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Here's a few links that might help....


http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/TobaccoEcon/welcome.html
Tobacco Economics online

http://www.fsa.usda.gov/tobcom/RecTobaccoProgram3_20.htm
Compensation to Quota Owners and Growers of All Kinds of Tobacco Allotments
and Quotas under a Tobacco Equity Reduction Program (TERP)


http://www.wisc.edu/cias/pubs/briefs/048.html
Echineacea as a tobacco crop alternative
Many Wisconsin tobacco farmers are looking for alternative crops following
the ongoing reductions in tobacco allotments and tobacco markets. Allotment
reductions mean lower production levels and lower incomes for tobacco
farmers. One crop proposed as an alternative to tobacco is echinacea
(pronounced ek-in-a-sha), or purple coneflower, grown mainly for its
medicinal root. Echinacea has enjoyed success in the herbal medicinal
market as an immune system booster. But the marketing requirements of
echinacea are very different than those of tobacco.


Barb - on the continental divide
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On 10/23/2002 at 10:16 PM Liz Pike wrote:

>> else now) and see what they know.  I am trying to find out why a person
>> can't grow tobacco without an allotment.  Seems ridiculous.
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>lobbies.  politicians.  laws.  
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>Liz Pike
>Laughing Brook Farm
>Westfield NC
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