ASAP releases a report on the end of tobacco.
April 4, 2018 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2018 at 3:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
With all the crap ag news coming out...this is a breath of fresh air.
the conclusion -
-some gems, but you'd have to slog through the report (it;s a quick read) in transition..is that there were a significant number of producers who went from burley to melons. Gotta make you smile. Cancer sticks to cantaloupes.
the conclusion -
Quote:The end of the federal tobacco program had a dramatic impact on the farms and communities of the burley tobacco growing region of WNC. Burley tobacco, and the federal program that supported it, uniquely protected the small farms that dominate the mountainous region of North Carolina. Anticipating the impact the loss of tobacco would have on communities, a group of farmers and citizens launched a local food campaign in 2000 to provide farmers with alternatives to tobacco. Localizing markets for farmers, it was hoped, would provide a place-based solution that engaged the greater community in the future of farming for the region. An analysis of the data from the Census of Agriculture period from just before the 1998 MSA to just after the end of federal support for tobacco with the passage of the 2004 Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act provided the opportunity to analyze the changes in agriculture in the region as they related to tobacco and local food production. The findings are striking - the region has all but lost tobacco while concurrently and significantly shifting to food production and local sales. Though the region did experience a dramatic loss of farms with the end of tobacco, the census period just after the 2004 buyout shows the region’s farm loss leveled off with a rate far less than the state and US loss rates. While local food has not replaced tobacco as a means of livelihood for the farmers of the region, it has emerged as a leading new direction for agriculturehttp://asapconnections.org/
-some gems, but you'd have to slog through the report (it;s a quick read) in transition..is that there were a significant number of producers who went from burley to melons. Gotta make you smile. Cancer sticks to cantaloupes.
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