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Abstract
As farm income from tobacco production has declined in recent years, there has been
increasing interest in identifying alternative sources of income for tobacco farmers in the
southern United States The recent termination of the tobacco quota program has
accelerated the exit of tobacco farmers and has heightened concern regarding the
availability of substitutes for tobacco production. In this study, we examine factors
influencing tobacco farmers’ attempts to identify profitable alternatives to tobacco, their
off-farm employment behavior, and changes in acres of tobacco cultivated using survey
data collected from a panel of North Carolina tobacco farmers combined with market data