Group that Offers Grants to Tobacco Farmers Meet Friday

Source from:  News 14 Carolina Staff 02/01/2005

North Carolina tobacco farmers have heard good and bad news in recent months. The good news, the federal government will pay billions of dollars to buy out tobacco quotas. The bad news, a judge has ruled a buyout frees tobacco companies from millions of dollars in payments to farmers. A group that offers grants to tobacco farmers meets Friday in Raleigh. Enditem