tobacco by: michael thompson
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Tobacco By: Michael Thompson. The Tobacco Transition Impact Program, or tobacco buyout, has discouraged growing the crop and killed small farms: Abolished government price support Abolished production controls for tobacco Pays farmers to stop growing the crop. Thesis Statement. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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TobaccoBy: Michael Thompson
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Thesis Statement
The Tobacco Transition Impact Program, or tobacco buyout, has discouraged growing the
crop and killed small farms:Abolished government price support
Abolished production controls for tobacco Pays farmers to stop growing the crop
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The removal of the government production control allows farmers to raise as much and
what type of tobacco as they want but this can intimidate small farm from starting to grow
tobacco
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The removal of government price supports put the farmers, that continue to grow tobacco,
at the mercy of a free market
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Farmers are given the a decision to quit growing tobacco and the government will pay
them for it Many of the farmers, that took the buyout, have to look to other crops to pay the bills
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People believe the goal of the program is to get rid of tobacco production all together
It will probably just get rid of the small farmers
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The larger farms have increased their production of the crop since the program
started in 2005
This has discouraged smaller farms to quit raising the crop all together or look at other
crops to raise along with tobacco
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Farmers that still grow the crop have to be able to market it because many of the
warehouses ,that they held auctions in to sell their crops in, have been closed
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Most of tobacco grew now is under contract
Many farmers have to be able contract their tobacco if they want sell their crop
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Many farmers believe that it is unwise to grow tobacco uncontracted because there is no more price safety net by the government
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Without production controls in place now, many farms have increased the acres of
tobacco they produce now
They have also started to use new ways to harvest, cure, and market it to cut the cost of
raising it
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In 2002 the average tobacco farm in North Carolina had 21 acres of tobacco
In 2007 it had increased to 65 acres
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The reason many farms increased production is no way to tell what the price their
crop will bring
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While in North Carolina production has increased, Kentucky and Tennessee are a
different case
They have lost more than half of their tobacco acreage since the buyout
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They still have a large number of small farms with less than 2 acres
These are the people that would seam to be best fitted to take the buyout but that's not the
case
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Many don't take the buyout because tobacco produces the best profits in small acreages
verse that of corn and other field crops
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Many farmers don't know if they will raise tobacco one year to the next
Even if they have a good yield in two year straight, both years can produce 2 very
different profits
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Many growers have looked in the promotion of American grown tobacco overseas as a
solutionAnother solution is manufacturing tobacco products and selling it under their own brand
name
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Because of low contract prices, many farmers who want to continue growing tobacco
have to look at other crops to grow with it They also look at better ways to grow
tobacco to gain a bigger profits
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Farmers have been growing strawberries, tomatoes, and other small crops to sell other
than their tobaccoSome larger operations have opened
garden centersA few tobacco farms have went into the
prawn, or freshwater shrimp, industry
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