Todd Spivey
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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But but yeah, it's one of the one of the many.
My manager likes to say we have one hundred and forty four FSA certified crops in our district.
And so we run the gamut from, you know, peaches and apples to tobacco and sweet potatoes to corn, beans and cotton.
Tobacco market fluctuates, right?
It's at this point, you know, as tobacco use in the States has declined, right?
It's an Asian market now.
So the vast majority of our tobacco actually ends up in China and South Asia.
But, um, in the Carolinas, right.
It's a, it's a proud heritage and it's what my community was built on is flu cured tobacco.
And, you know, my grandparents and great grandparents and everybody's grandparents and great grandparents, that's what we were raised on.
And, uh, so, and it still is a big deal, right?
The numbers, the numbers of growers have reduced.
Everybody doesn't, their family doesn't just have a 20 acre patch of tobacco anymore, but, um, but it's still, you know, the, the roots are still there.
Yeah, you let me know, and we've got some proud tobacco growers that would love to visit.
That's good.
Yeah, for sure.
That specialty market is growing as, you know, as these commodity, row crop commodity prices, you know, fluctuate more and more.
Inputs keep going up, right?
One of the benefits, I guess, if you look at that specialty market is you're bringing a higher value on the same number of acres you were previously.
So if inputs are going to go up regardless, you know, growers are looking for that value.
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