<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/be358552-3cce-4469-807b-c7efa03dc771/7A5D3DD0-F40F-404F-BEBD-21B9473052B7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200702/1848634.htm?goulburnmurray" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200702/1848634.htm?goulburnmurray" style="font-size: 11px;">www.abc.net.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200702/1848634.htm?goulburnmurray"><SPAN class="AEDT">Thursday, 15 February 2007. 14:23 (AEDT)</SPAN><SPAN class="ACST">Thursday, 15 February 2007. 13:23 (ACST)</SPAN><SPAN class="AEST">Thursday, 15 February 2007. 13:23 (AEST)</SPAN><SPAN class="ACDT">Thursday, 15 February 2007. 14:23 (ACDT)</SPAN><SPAN class="AWDT">Thursday, 15 February 2007. 12:23 (AWDT)</SPAN><P> Several Myrtleford tobacco growers are planning to apply for export permits so they can continue growing the crop.</p> <P> Farmers voted to close the industry in October and will get more than $30 million in compensation from British American Tobacco and the Federal Government.</p> <P> But grower Carlo Mancuso says the area is suffering without tobacco.</p> <P> He says he has talked to four companies about buying Australian tobacco and he is seeking approval from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to begin growing again.</p> <P> "We have talked to the ... ATO about what we're doing, they've given us a list of criteria that they want met and I don't think they're out of our reach to tick the boxes and to meet the criteria that they've put forward for us," he said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7A5D3DD0-F40F-404F-BEBD-21B9473052B7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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