Interview with Charles W. Meadows, May 15, 1987

Interview Summary

Manager of Southern States Farm Supply Store, Fleming County, Flemingsburg, personal background, services and products offered by Southern States, concept of the co-op, different ownership patterns for Southern States stores, different products used in preparing a tobacco plant bed including gas, plastic, canvas etc., restricted use of chemicals and farmer training, resistence to training by farmers, products used to prepare tobacco fields, herbicides, disease control, competition among chemical companies, sucker control, pest control, products used in curing process, construction of baling boxes, mechanization, decline of small family farm in favor of agri-business, use of credit by farmers, importance of tobacco to farmers

Interview Keyword

Heritage farms

Interview LC Subject

Agricultural innovations--Social aspects--Kentucky Agriculture--Kentucky Agriculture. Baling Burley tobacco Family farms Family farms--Finance Fungicides Southern States Cooperative Tobacco blue mold Tobacco curing Tobacco farmers Tobacco industry Tobacco--Diseases and pests Tobacco--Equipment and supplies Tobacco--Herbicides Tobacco--Insecticides Tobacco--Kentucky Tobacco--Technological innovations

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