Kentucky Tops North Carolina Tobacco Exports

Source from:  tobaccofarmquarterly.com July 7, 2006 07/11/2006

Kentucky became the leading tobacco-exporting U.S. state for fiscal year 2005, with North Carolina a close second, according to the latest USDA report, "U.S. Agricultural Trade Update-State Exports." The values of tobacco exports (in millions) of the top six exporting states are: Kentucky, $339.9, North Carolina, $291.6, Tennessee, $82.1, Virginia, $61.7, South Carolina, $51.8, and Georgia, $39.6. The value of unmanufactured tobacco exports for the U.S. as a whole was $983.2 million, ranking 14 among U.S. agricultural export values. Enditem