As farm income from tobacco production has declined in recent years, there has been increasing interest in identifying … alternative sources of income for tobacco farmers in the southern United States The recent termination of the tobacco quota … program has accelerated the exit of tobacco farmers and has heightened concern regarding the availability of substitutes for …

The “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” was signed into law on June 22, 2009. The bill grants the … Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an authority to regulate the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products …. Tobacco leaf is not subject to the regulation. As a result, it is not apparent what it does mean to tobacco growers. However …

The Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 eliminated tobacco quotas and tobacco price supports and allowed … producers to plant any amount or type of tobacco regardless of geographic location. The authors found that flue-cured tobacco … producers made greater adjustments to their operations after the buyout than did burley tobacco producers. Flue-cured tobacco …

Three representative Tennessee tobacco farms are used to estimate farm-level impacts of (1) program continuation with …