Interview with Charles E. Fowlkes, January 11, 1984

Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Tobacco auctioneer, tobacco season, relationship with warehouses, auctioneering contests, pay scale for auctioneers, allocating tobacco to tobacco companies, how auctioneers take bids, pool tobacco graders support prices, farmer's lobbying of auctioneers, changes in the burley market over the years, uses of burley tobacco, future of auction system

Interview Accession

1995oh144_ff474

Interviewee Name

Charles E. Fowlkes

Interviewer Name

John Klee

Interview Date

1984-01-11

Interview Keyword

Heritage farms

Interview LC Subject

Agriculture--Kentucky Auctioneers Baling Burley tobacco Commerce Family farms Tobacco farmers Tobacco industry Tobacco--Grading Tobacco--Kentucky Warehouses Agriculture

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Fowlkes, Charles E. Interview by John Klee. 11 Jan. 1984. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

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Fowlkes, Charles E., interview by John Klee. January 11, 1984, Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

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