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Exits Among U.S. Burley Tobacco Growers After the End of the Federal Tobacco Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Kelly J. Tiller ,
Shiferaw T. Feleke  and
Jane H. Starnes
Kelly J. Tiller
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Shiferaw T. Feleke
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Jane H. Starnes
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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Abstract

This study explores the relationship between family/farm characteristics and the probability of exiting burley tobacco farming in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. Following the termination of the federal tobacco program in 2004, 54% of burley tobacco-growing households in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. exited burley tobacco farming by 2006. Tobacco yield, tobacco farm cash receipts, tobacco price, off-farm employment, and farm size are the most dominant variables discriminating between exiting and surviving tobacco farms. Data for this study came from a mail survey of burley tobacco producers in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina in May 2006.

Keywords

burley tobaccoexitfederal tobacco programC25Q12Q18
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , May 2010 , pp. 161 - 175
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2010

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