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Jump to full article: Coalfield.com (The Coalfield Progress, The Dickenson (VA) Star and The Post), 2005-02-08
Author: JOHN MONGLE, Staff Writer
Intro: Blevins, a slate of tobacco market analysts and experts knowledgeable in new, or sustainable, farming methods gathered at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center to talk to Southwest Virginia tobacco farmers about the future of the crop and its alternatives.
"Tobacco will continue, but it will continue in a different way," said Ninth District Rep. Boucher, D-Abingdon, who hosted the tobacco conference, an annual tradition he has maintained for 22 years. "People who are good at it will continue. Tobacco will be important to the economy of the region for decades to come."
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