Throughout the next century, the tobacco industry flourished in Weston, averaging five million pounds of tobacco at the local auction houses per year most of it burley tobacco, used in cigarettes
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It would take decades to recover the momentum begun in Colonial times, but business did steadily increase, and by 1860, although the crop was no longer the states biggest agricultural product (cotton and wheat were at that time in high demand), on the eve of the American Civil War exports totaled around 17.1 million pounds
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As weve seen in chickens and other products in the contracting system, farmers take on a lot of [financial] risk and then theyre at the mercy of the company theyve contracted with. Fewer buyers and contract farming not only squeeze growers, but their workers as well
