people think that the tobacco alotments were bad but they made it so there would not just be one or two farmer that grows 2000 acres of tobacco and other farmers that grew nothing and now thats how it is, i live in eastren nc and there are tons of aboned tobacco warehouses, we need to bring tobacco alotments back!!
Read that at 1965 Smoke Act, there were 519,000 T. farms, most in VA/NC/TN/KY, but double the number in NC, the bible belt. @2002, it was 46,000. The land, devalued, bought up for subdivisions and yankee-ugly strip malls of the "New South" & breakup of southern culture. 1 wonders if they just hated the bible belters. Sure wasn't abt health (they jack kids up on ADD drugs, sugar, pharm rugs, etc.) Ppl from that life should record it, their memories, people do care.
Page is a true gentlemen and one of the best tobacco auctioneers the business ever to walk the rows. I had the pleasure of buying tobacco with Page Roberts in Winston-Salem, Lexington Ky., and in Hughesville, Maryland. Page, Bob Cage, & Walter Wilkerson were all three class acts in the auctioneering universe.
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InsaneMusicJunkie25 1 month ago
people think that the tobacco alotments were bad but they made it so there would not just be one or two farmer that grows 2000 acres of tobacco and other farmers that grew nothing and now thats how it is, i live in eastren nc and there are tons of aboned tobacco warehouses, we need to bring tobacco alotments back!!
henryfishinandhuntin 3 months ago
Read that at 1965 Smoke Act, there were 519,000 T. farms, most in VA/NC/TN/KY, but double the number in NC, the bible belt. @2002, it was 46,000. The land, devalued, bought up for subdivisions and yankee-ugly strip malls of the "New South" & breakup of southern culture. 1 wonders if they just hated the bible belters. Sure wasn't abt health (they jack kids up on ADD drugs, sugar, pharm rugs, etc.) Ppl from that life should record it, their memories, people do care.
westchesterny 6 months ago
Page is a true gentlemen and one of the best tobacco auctioneers the business ever to walk the rows. I had the pleasure of buying tobacco with Page Roberts in Winston-Salem, Lexington Ky., and in Hughesville, Maryland. Page, Bob Cage, & Walter Wilkerson were all three class acts in the auctioneering universe.
Yarddawgful 1 year ago