Burley groups have a tobacco quota buyout proposal. Big changes are looming on the horizon for the tobacco industry, and at the top of the list is the much-discussed quota buyout issue. Farm and tobacco groups across the burley belt have come up witha "quota adjustment proposal" but it's still a long way from a done deal. Burley representatives must now meet with fluecured growers and come up with a plan acceptable to both groups. Sam Moore, Kentucky Farm Bureau president, told growers at the Tobacco Farmer Day during the National Farm Machinery Show that congressmen from tobacco states want a consensus among burley and flue-cured growers. "They have told us to bring to them a proposal agreed upon by both and they will see what they can do," saidMoore.
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