A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 10,1982
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“Tobacco politics cross party think the Maryland tobacco ruling
lines,'’Davis said. would have any effect.
“They’re tough and they play for Regardless, local growers still
keeps. considered themselves in a non
“lf Pennsylvania is exempted quota area,
and you start coming up with But a handful of quotas still exist
tobacco going into the hurley f or Type 53 tobacco in Clinton and
market, there will be another law Lycoming counties. This makes all
passed.” of Pennsylvania a quota area.
So, the key to growing Maryland But it has been determined that
tobacco this year appears to hinge Type 53 was last raised by the only
on where it goes in the marketing remaining grower in Lycoming
channels. County in 1976. He now raises Type
The past few years an increasing 41.
amount of Maryland tobacco and
even lighter-colored Pennsylvania
tobacco has been purchased out of
Lancaster County at a premium
rate by a Southern buyer.
This same type of situation, but
only on a larger scale in North
Carolina, South Carolina and
Virginia, is what led to the change
in the Farm Bill to stop the
growing of non-quota tobacco in
quota states.
Last year, some 11,000 acres of
non-quota Maryland tobacco were
grown in these three states, which
have quotas.
The Maryland tobacco was being
used as a substitute for burley
tobacco and thus affected the CCC
payments that were being paid out
by the Federal Government for
burley quotas.
But several things make the
Lancaster County quota situation
different and unique.
First, Lancaster County
growers, since they have
traditionally rejected tobacco
quotas, did not think they were in a
quota area.
At the same time, the USDA was
not aware that Maryland tobacco
was being grown in Lancaster
County.
Thus, the interpretation by the
USDA of the change in the quota
law was not promptly com
municated to Lancaster County by
the USDA because officials didn’t
w
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But the tobacco allotments will
remain in effect indefinitely, even
though that particular tobacco is
no longer grown, because the land
was placed under conservation
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The Pennsylvania growers of
Type 53 even turned down quotas
m the last referendum, but were
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“That’s ridiculous,” exclaimed
Congressman Walker.
“We don’t want the quotas. We
can’t get rid of them. We’re locked
into them. And will always be
outvoted.”
James Boyd, a lawyer for the
USDA, was also present at the
session and explained that the
courts had found in favor of the
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