A two thirds favorable vote will mean that growers are willing to continue to assess themselves to support tobacco research and education. The assessment is 10 cents per hundred pounds of tobacco produced in North Carolina.
The money, about $300,000 annually, is collected at buying stations by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, allocated by the Tobacco Research Commission to research and extension projects for tobacco at N.C. State University.
For more information on the referendum and projects funded by the check-off, go to: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/advancement/09TobaccoReferendum.htm
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