Dohlman, Erik; Foreman, Linda F.; Da Pra, Michelle - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
Marketing quota and price support programs for peanuts and tobacco were a longstanding feature of U.S. farm policy …, from the 1930s until the Government enacted quota buyouts, in 2002 for peanuts and 2004 for tobacco. Quota owners were … contracting. Freed of the planting restrictions in the quota programs, production of peanuts, and to a lesser extent of tobacco …