Tobacco Growers Push for Exit Plan

Source from:  Saturday November 25, 2006 By Ian McCallum Times-Journal Staff 11/28/2006

Tobacco farmers from across southwestern Ontario converged on the city Friday morning to push for immediate action on an exit strategy for producers. Close to 100 growers, under the banner of Tobacco Farmers in Crisis, took their message to the constituency offices of Elgin-Middlesex-London MP Joe Preston and EML MPP Steve Peters. "We're here to send a message to Joe and his colleagues up in Ottawa that they've got to get on with the show," Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers' Marketing Board chairman Fred Neukamm told the Times-Journal. Enditem