For quota owners, this was an income source for them. And if they're wise - and a lot of them are - they're looking to invest this money so it continues to be an income source for them.

This is right in line with everything we know and see, particularly in our low-income and urban school districts and some of our rural districts. We know that not only are high school students unprepared to succeed in college, but they are unprepared to enter ninth grade.

Caring for two premature babies and paying insurance, along with carrying the rest of household expenses on one income, made paying our hospital bills a financial impossibility.

It's more like the specialty vegetable crops than it's like growing a big commodity like corn or soybeans.

You hear people talking about everything from pastured poultry to goats to heirloom tomatoes to all kinds of things. But there's no silver bullet.

With the buyout, it's now possible to grow tobacco anywhere and whatever kind you want to grow. When the companies found out they could not get the volume of burley they needed from states like Kentucky, they went elsewhere. They also are looking at Mississippi and Illinois and some other states.