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RALEIGH, N.C. — Tobacco
planting season has barely started,
but David and Pat Proctor already
have made $9,600 on a crop they are
not going to grow.
The couple has leased their quota
— their federally granted right to sell
24,000 pounds of the leaf. With the
40 cents they got for each pound, the
Proctors developed the grain crop
they are growing on the land where
the tobacco would have been.
Cynthia Harris is leasing her
12,869 pounds of tobacco. Unlike the
Proctors, Harris is not a farmer. She
said she has the quota because she
inherited a farm from her father, who
rarely tilled the soil, but still had the
quota because his father was a
farmer.
The Proctors and Harris are
among the more than 170,000 prop
erty owners nationally who capitalize
every year on one of America s most
unusual property rights: the tobacco
quota.
Created in the late 1930s, the
quota for both flue-cured and hurley
tobacco has evolved into a means for
some landholders to make money off
the work of others.
Last year about 121,000 of the
193,500 farm owners with quota
rights to flue-cured tobacco leased
their quotas, the U.S. Department
of Agriculture said. Among hurley
tobacco growers the proportion was
smaller: about 52,000 landholders of
the 305,000 leased.
Some agriculture officials claim
those leases are offered predomi
nantly by retired farmers who need
the extra cash to hold onto their
farms.
But Billy Yeargin, executive sec
retary of the Tobacco Growers’ Infor
mation Committee, says many quota
holders are lumber and paper com
panies, churches and other nonfarm
groups.
“I would say a very large percen
tage of those quota owners are not
involved in tobacco farming what
soever,” he said.
growers should have quota rights.
But as to whether the present system
is unfair, he says, It would almost be
like saying ‘Would it be fair for you to
rent an apartment that you have in
herited from your family?’ Who can
argue with you that you don’t want to
live in that apartment, you want to
rent it out? It (the quota) is a proper
ty right owned by you.
Mrs. Proctor said quota rights are
fair because it adds to her farm’s
value.
basis in 1934 in an attemjji,/
tobacco production from IlL !■
market and thus cheap^jf
crop. The system was m ’
tory in 1938 and then
1939.
That year farmers grew so,
the price plummeted. Mj|]
farmers voted the program J J
during 1940 and have kept?! 1
since. "
Agriculture officials say
farmers need more tobacco U
order to make the expensh?! »|
equipment worthwhile. AltlJ
US DA regulations do permit,
new quotas, most farmers
found they must buy up leases}
farmers and their descender3; *
have dropped out of agricult^L .
held onto the land, and thus: ®l
their quotas. f
A lot of people are upset i rtt |
lease prices, but that has neverk ’
translated into a move to scnpl
allotment system,” said EdWaj
legislative assistant to Rep. W* < \
B. Jones, D-N.C. and head of! lth |
House Tobacco Affairs Subi
mittee.
“When we bought the farm, we
paid a lot more for the land to get the
quota,” she said. “We need the
leases to help make our payments.”
Found elsewhere only in peanuts,
rice and a form of cotton, tobacco
quotas matter because of the high
price that crop brings. In eastern
North Carolina an acre of land can
easily yield $2,860 worth of flue-
cured leaf, compared to just $287
worth of corn and $200 worth of soy
beans.
Ernest Miller of the federal Agri
cultural Soil and Conservation Ser
vice said quotas began on a voluntary
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