NOTICE OF EXPORT PROMOTION REFERENDUM
TO: North Carolina Flue-Cured Tobacco FarmersNOTICE is hereby given that a check-off referendum will be held on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 in each flue-cured tobacco producing county in North Carolina. Flue-cured tobacco growers will vote on continuing their support of export promotion and expansion for US flue-cured tobacco by Tobacco Associates, Inc. for the marketing years 2
025, 2026, 2027. The referendum will be conducted by the NC State Extension Service. Polling places will be open during normal business hours at each flue-cured tobacco producing County Extension office. The referendum will include the question of continuance of the authorization of annual assessments not to exceed one-fifth (1/5) of one cent per pound. The exact assessment to be approved by the North Carolina Tobacco Associates Board members.
ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE
The Board of Directors of Tobacco Associates has determined the eligibility for voting in Tobacco Associates’ referendum as follows:
Any tobacco farmer (who is 18 years old or older at the time of the referendum) who was engaged in the production of flue-cured tobacco during the 2024 crop is eligible to vote. Persons eligible to vote in this referendum are tobacco producers who share directly in the risk of production of the tobacco crop or in the proceeds of sale of tobacco grown in North Carolina.
A person is considered to be engaged in the production of tobacco, if the person was a tobacco producer who was entitled to a share in the tobacco crop or in the proceeds of the tobacco because he/she shared in the risk of production of tobacco on a farm on which tobacco was planted in a workmanlike manner for harvest.
A person shall not be entitled to more than one vote regardless of the number of farms on which the person has an interest.
