ONTARIO CLOSURE
July 1st, 2002
BY MONICA DOBIETHE ONTARIO Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers' Marketing Board has announced the Tillsonburg auction warehouse will close and that the 2001 tobacco crop and future crops, will be marketed exclusively through the nearby Delhi auction exchange.The board said the reduction in crop size, due to anti-smoking policies and excessive taxation by both Canadian federal and provincial governments, made it uneconomical to operate both the Delhi and Tillsonburg exchanges.In a vote held by the Board, 86 per cent of all eligible producers, about 1,130, voted by 59 per ...
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