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Lewis Curry plans to retire from raising tobacco crops after this one is sold

Lewis Currys tobacco crop is one of a dwindling number in Adair County. Its harder to find tobacco growing now with the health warnings against smoking. He says he will cut, house and sell this crop in the coming weeks, and then he plans to retire from raising it. Farmers are quickly replacing tobacco with other crops.

Curry says hes been farming all his life. Sometimes it was rough, like this year, on the edge of a drought. He doesnt want to see this become an official drought.

He also grows hay and has about a hundred head of cattle on his 160-acre farm in the Vester community. My family moved here when I was two and its beginning to feel a little like home, he says.

He and his wife Joann, a retired teacher, have three children: Kenny Wayne, a Kentucky State Policeman in Central City, Tammy in Bowling Green and Julie in Elizabethtown.


This story was posted on 2005-08-14 20:07:56
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Lewis Curry stands in his last tobacco crop on Vester family farm



2005-08-14 - Columbia, KY - Photo Linda Waggener. RETIRING FROM RAISING TOBACCO: Lewis Curry is shown above standing in his last tobacco crop on the family farm in the Vester community. He says he will retire from raising the crop after this one. His decision joins that of many other local farmers to move away from tobacco. It is getting to be a rare sight in fields across Adair County. Click 'read more' for his story.
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