- The Tobacco Transition Payment Program TTPP, also called the tobacco buy-out, helps tobacco quota holders and producers transition to the free market.
- Last tobacco buyout payment Tobacco Transition Payment Program is one of several run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture s Farm Service Agency subject to.
- USDA last year said the final payment to quota holders under the 2004 tobacco buyout would be reduced due to budget sequestration. However McConnell, the senior.
- Final year of federal tobacco buyout payments will come in full to tobacco farmers and not subject to federal sequestration.
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Now that the tobacco buyout has passed, growers may be asking, When will I get my check. U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge.
Final year of federal tobacco buyout payments will come in full to tobacco farmers.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Jo Ann Freeman says her father told her before he died to hold on to the family's Bertie County farmland because she could always live off of it, and besides, "God's not making any more." So tobacco was still growing there in 2004 when Congress ended the allotment system that gave people the right to farm and sell the golden leaf under a Depression-era price support program.
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