US: Tobacco-Growers Meeting Generates Little Interest

Source from:  Greeneville Sun 04/19/2013

Only a handful of tobacco growers showed up at a Philip Morris USA-sponsored informational meeting Wednesday evening at the Clyde Austin 4-H Center.

"We were here and left, and now we want to come back," Shelby Belk, of Bardstown, Ky., a Philip Morris USA tobacco buyer who presented the program, said during her presentation.

"We want to see what kind of interest is here," Belk said, "while looking at the possibility of opening a receiving [buying] station in the Greeneville area."

But, based on the reaction of a handful of Greene County growers in attendance, the current level of interest in selling to Philip Morris USA might not be great enough for the re-establishment of a company buying station in the Greeneville area. Enditem