Without the program, he's not sure many in his area would make it. You take tobacco out of the picture and it doesn't work. But he doesn't think it's enough. The worry is always there Rusty Thompson of Versailles came in from baling hay on Wednesday to find out that the tobacco settlement he'd been watching all year had died on the vine. And he wasn't a bit surprised.
People are tired of hearing about it.
And without price supports, she wouldn't want him to. All that work to raise it and by the time you got through with it, maybe get nothing for it. But for now, the worry is always there, behind every decision to try a new crop or not to build a new barn. But with last week's shelving of the proposed legislation, they can turn back to more normal worries, like the weather. We've tried seven other crops, and the income from all seven put together wouldn't amount to a fourth of what tobacco is.