CORESTA Meeting, Agronomy/Phytopathology, Krakow, 2007, AP 07
Fuel cost uncertainty effects on flue-cured tobacco production
University of Georgia, Agricultural Economist, Athens, GA, USA
Flue-cured tobacco production involves high labor and fuel-energy inputs. Approximately 25% of the cash costs of producing flue-cured tobacco in the U.S. is fuel cost. Most of these costs are for fuel derived from crude oil for drying the leaf....