Western Kentucky tobacco crop thrives despite drought -- but it doesn't come cheap
08/10/2012 11:13 AM
With the corn crop all but ruined and the soybean yield questionable, one might think that all crops in western Kentucky have succumbed to the drought of 2012.
But Carlisle County farmer Bobby Toon said his tobacco crop will be one of the best he’s ever had despite the lack of rain.
Toon has used irrigation to make sure that his tobacco gets the water it needs to remain green and bring him a lot of green when he goes to market in the fall.
While Toon is happy that his tobacco should be of top quality, he says that it comes at a steep price. And he explained that the economics of agriculture make it worth it to pay that for tobacco but not corn.
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