Interview with Ray Mackey, November 26, 1984

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

Interview Summary

Farmer, Hardin County, Elizabethtown, childhood in Clinton County, organization of Kentucky Farm Bureau and efforts to help dairy farmers, how tobacco came to be sold in bales, Council on Burley Tobacco, problems with tobacco program, 1982 freeze on price supports, comparison of Carter and Reagan administrations, effect of taxes on cigarette sales, monopolistic control of the tobacco market by two buyers

Interview Accession

1995oh188_ff518

Interviewee Name

Ray Mackey

Interviewer Name

John Klee

Interview Date

1984-11-26

Interview Keyword

Heritage farms

Interview LC Subject

Agriculture--Kentucky Agriculture. Baling Burley tobacco Cigarettes--Taxation Conglomerate corporations Family farms Kentucky Farm Bureau Tobacco farmers Tobacco industry Tobacco--Government policy Tobacco--Kentucky Tobacco--Law and legislation United States. Dept. of Agriculture

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