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Jump to full article: Bristol (VA) Herald-Courier, 2005-02-08
Author: SAMANTHA SIEBER
Intro: Some tobacco farmers who attended an annual burley conference on Monday left with their biggest question unanswered.
When will they start receiving money from the recently-approved tobacco buyout plan?
"We were hoping they had more information on the buyout that what we had heard before," said Brenda Tate, who grows more than an acre of tobacco in Washington County...
.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-9th, hosted the 22nd Annual Ninth District Burley Tobacco Growers' Conference at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center to provide details about the buyout and how farmers can participate.
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