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Excerpt from Tobacco Situation: December 1980 Domestic tobacco supplies for are 2 per cent smaller than last season because beginning stocks were down 9 percent from the previous year. The 1980 crop is up because of increases in both acreage and yields. Despite widespread drought and some disease outbreaks that hurt cr0p quality, the crop staged a big recovery from 1979's output which was reduced by blue-mold. Auction prices for flue-cured tobacco fell after mid-september when late season demand weakened. But average prices for the season were record high, up 4 percent from 1979. Burley sales began in late November, with prices averaging sharply above 1979 levels. Fire-cured and dark air-cured tobaccos have also sold at higher prices this season. Total tobacco use in may be down slightly from last year. Us. Exports of unmanufactured tobacco for J uly-october 1980 rose in volume from a year earlier. But shipments are expected to go below year-ago levels the rest of the season. A decline in domestic disappearance will further lower utilization for this marketing. Year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.