TPD
the poor dad
It wasn’t a one time payout. It was a payment every year for 10 years.
Farming Industry in SoMd would BOOM once again!
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Must have been a good deal if so many farmers said yes.
- Participating growers were paid $1.00 per pound for ten years.
- Payments were based on the growers’ average verified tobacco production in crop years 1996, 1997, and 1998 as documented in sales records.
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
It was and it wasn't. Tobacco was a declining crop, prices were stagnating or dropping while costs and regulations kept increasing, so a lot of the growers looked down the road and saw that they were slowly being driven out of business.
Must have been a good deal if so many farmers said yes.
- Participating growers were paid $1.00 per pound for ten years.
- Payments were based on the growers’ average verified tobacco production in crop years 1996, 1997, and 1998 as documented in sales records.
The trick was to find replacement crops, that's why you're seeing more farm to table produce as well as flowers, small grains and vineyards. One of the requirements was that the land that was taken out of tobacco couldn't be flipped for a period of years (I don't remember how long) to grow houses.
Stupid anecdote: even before the buyout there was a group of mostly newer more sophisticated residents of Calvert County who lobbied to have the tobacco leaf on the County flag taken off.
Another anecdote: a lot of people run away from the reality that tobacco and, in the case of Calvert, slot machines supported the Counties for decades and centuries. They're why there were hospitals, for an example. The money from those "sinful" activities built them.
Bet these same"do gooders" gladly accept funding generated from tax on tobacco sales. They also support marijuana production and use which one might argue has its own set of associated problems.
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
But, but, the tobacco taxes help people quit smoking (or got to Virginia to buy cigarettes). Which then generates complaints that the tobacco taxes aren't raising enough money which then fuels demands to increase then more.
...and all the gambling houses in St. Mary's and Charles counties. Big business.
Anyone know a person that quit the coffin nails because of some government programs? Maybe they exist like Sasquatch running around Green Ridge Forest, who knows?
Bare-ya-cuda
Well-Known Member
Hemp is being grown in America. I know a guy who lives behind my brother in Tennessee and he has a fairly large hemp farming operation .
buddscreek
Active Member
the burley crop is shipped to Tennessee, and the Maryland leaf and Connecticut leaf is shipped to pa.
LightRoasted
If I may ...
For your consideration ...
With a carton of Marlboro reds going for $140, I'd say the state should be rolling in tax revenue.
Maryland a while back, maybe during Glendening's years, passed a law allowing for the growing and cultivation of hemp in Maryland. Maybe @NorthBeachPerso can shed more light on this.
Remember during WWII, Hemp for Victory!!!
With a carton of Marlboro reds going for $140, I'd say the state should be rolling in tax revenue.
Maryland a while back, maybe during Glendening's years, passed a law allowing for the growing and cultivation of hemp in Maryland. Maybe @NorthBeachPerso can shed more light on this.
Remember during WWII, Hemp for Victory!!!
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
That's $70+/- per carton in taxes.
I don't remember that. I was more involved in Smart Growth and trying to smooth out the stupid shi!t that was included (which got into PlanMD later under O' Malley anyway).