Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Tobacco Situation, Vol. 74: December 27, 1955
The total supplies of fire-cured, and dark air and sun-cured for 1955-56 are 3 and h percent larger than 195h 55. Record and near-record yields per acre for some types largely offset the effect of reduced 1955 acreage allotments. The 1956 acreage allotments for fire-cured and dark air-cured are 15 and 20 percent below the 1955 allotments. Growers of these types voted last December to continue quotes in effect on their 1955, 1956, and 1957 crops. Growers of Virginia sun-cured (type will vote on December 29 on whether to continue quotas on their next three crops. Their 1956 allotment is approximately the same as in 1955. 'when quotas are in effect, Government price support for the fire-cured types is mandatory at 75 percent of the burley support level and.for dark air and sun-cured, at 66 percent of the burley support level. For burley, lue-cured, and other types, price support at 90 percent of parity is mandatory when marketing quotas are in effect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
