Burley Stabilization Corporation
P.O. Box 6447 (4320 McCalla Avenue) Knoxville, Tennessee 37914

The Eastern Dark Fired Tobacco Growers' Association represents 14,000 producers and quota owners in north central Tennessee and south central Kentucky. These growers produce Dark Fire-Cured (Type 22) and Dark Air-Cured (Type 35 One Sucker) tobaccos. The Association administers the United States Department of Agriculture's price support program and provides assistance and/or loan stocks to companies desiring quality dark tobaccos. The President of the Association is Dan S. Borthick and the Secretary Treasurer/ General Manager is Kenneth W. Smith. Dark Air and Fire-Cured tobaccos are used in a variety of products including moist and dry snuff, roll your own smoking tobacco, loose leaf, plug and twist chewing tobacco, cigars and pipe tobaccos.

The administrative control of the Western Dark Fired Tobacco Growers' Association is vested in a board of eight directors. The president of the association is Jim Kelly; vice president, Gail Dobson; and the general manager is Will Ed Clark. The purposes of the association are to market the tobacco crops of its members cooperatively, stabilize markets of dark tobacco and dark tobacco products; engage in any activity connected with the handling, processing, storing and selling of dark tobacco and dark tobacco products; and to sell to its members any machinery, equipment or supplies used in any of the above mentioned activities. The association represents growers of Type 23, dark fire cured tobacco, and Type 35, dark air cured tobacco. Type 23 is mainly used in making snuff, plug, and twist chewing tobacco. About half of the crop is exported. Type 35 is used in plug and twist chewing tobacco, snuff, and to some extent smoking tobacco.

The Northern Wisconsin Co-Operative Tobacco Pool receives and sells Havana type 55 cigar leaf tobacco. They also handle and sell grower supplies of seed, bed canvas, chemicals and fertilizers in Wisconsin. In addition, they assist growers with production or cultural problems; are available for local, state, federal legislative assistance; and are the Wisconsin tobacco voice for state tobacco farmers.
 

The administrative control of Dark Tobacco Sales Cooperative is vested in a board of six directors. The President of the association is Joseph A. Hazlegrove; Vice President, Horace Adams; and the General Manager is Haywood J. Hamlet. The purposes of this cooperative is to offer support prices to the grower through contracts with the auction warehouses. Any tobacco taken under loan is accepted by the Cooperative, redried, packed and stored to be offered for sale at a later date. This tobacco moves into the trade to supplement for bad crop years or is sold to companies not represented on the warehouse floor. The Cooperative is responsible for Virginia Dark Fired (Type 21) and Virginia Sun Cured (Type 37) tobaccos. Type 21 is mainly snuff and cigar filler domestically and smoking mixtures in Scandinavian Countries and Germany. Type 37 Sun Cured tobacco (air-cured) is mainly used in making snuff and chewing tobacco domestically and smoking mixtures in Scandinavian Countries.