—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, December 8, 1973
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annually ten years ago to just 18
million pounds last year.
The future of the crop here
depends upon how tobacco is
merchandised, Hess feels. “More
and more foreign tobacco is
coming into the U. 5.,” he said,
“and a lot of it is going into
cigars. Today, foreign tobacco
accounts for about two-thirds of
the cigar filler market, while the
U. S. supplies only a third. Not too
many years ago, those figures
were exactly reversed. Wage
rates in other countries are a lot
lower than they are here, and
places like Mexico and South
America can grow tobacco
cheaper than we can here. When
our prices get too high, the cigar
makers get their supplies from
foreign growers.”
Last year’s average selling
price for Lancaster County
tobacco was 46 cents a pound.
The year before it was 34 cents.
- Could it go to 60 cents this year or
even, as many hope, 75 cents? “It
seems unlikely that we’ll have 10
cent price jumps two years in a
row,” Hess said. “And as prices
move up, we’ll be threatened
more and more by imported
tobacco. We’ve got to start
thinking about growing for the
higher priced southern market if
we’re going to maintain tobacco
as an important cash crop in
Lancaster County.”
There is no crop on the horizon
that will match the value of
tobacco as a cash crop, Hess
feels. “Our weather pattern is the
best and most consistent
anywhere. Over a period of time,
if we work together, and reach
out for new markets, we’ll be able
to get higher prices for our
crops.”
One listener in the audience
challenged Hess’s assertion that
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growing quality tobacco was the
best way to insure a healthy
market in the future. “Why
should we take the time and
trouble to get really good tobacco
when we get only two or three
cents a pound extra for our ef
forts? It just doesn’t make
sense.”
“I agree with you to a point,”
Hess replied, “but our prices
have gotten to the pbint where
we’re going to be'losing even
more business to foreign
growers. And it’s a sad fact that
improvements in any market
must almost always start with
the producers. If we continue to
take the attitude that quality
doesn’t matter, we’ll be in trouble
in the years ahead. And if the
buyers won’t pay enough to
justify growing a higher quality
crop, we may just have to start
looking for alternate users of
Lancaster County tobacco.
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