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Growing a quality tobacco crop under contract to meet more demanding requirements of your cigarette manufacturer or leaf dealers is what you need to do to maximize your profits. Because you are now paid for the quality of tobacco as well as poundage that you deliver to the receiving station, you need to use highly-effective tobacco crop care products.
Fair Products, Inc. now manufactures and distributes the most complete and versatile group of tobacco crop care products available to growers of most types of tobacco grown today. Our high quality products cover a broad spectrum of uses. Each product has been tested and proven on farms like your own. Plus, they are available in versatile and available in environmentally-friendly packages and most bulk systems.
Fair Products, Inc.'s high-quality products are:
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* Fair 85 - Contact Sucker Control
* Fair Tac - Contact Sucker Control
* FST-7 - Contact & Systemic Sucker Control
* Fair 30 - Systemic Prevention of Growth of Tobacco Suckers
* Fair 80 SP - Systemic Prevention of Growth of Tobacco Suckers
* Fair Plus - Systemic Sucker Control
* O-TAC - Plant Control Agent for Organic, PRC and MH-Free Tobacco
Our product line-up not only enhances the growth and maturity of the crop, but also protects your leaf against suckers and yield loss. Most importantly, our products will help you improve buyer demand for your leaf and maximize your bottom-line profits. |
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All of our suckercides are formulated at our
plant in WIlmington, NC
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| H. Frank Grainger - Owner and Founder |
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Over
his 40-year career, Frank Grainger has been a leader in the
tobacco industry, agribusiness, economic development and in higher
education.
Frank was born and raised in Columbus County, North Carolina and still
is a tobacco grower there. Frank started Fair Products in 1984, buying
the company from Fairmount Chemical.
As
a fellow grower, Frank was instrumental in forming the Tobacco Growers
Association of North Carolina, served as treasurer and has taken on
leadership roles, serving a number of years as chairman of TGANC’s
legislative committee.
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TGANC
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In
his TGANC role, Frank has met frequently with North Carolina’s
Congressional delegation in Washington, DC. He’s also been integrally
involved in North Carolina legislative activities. |
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Frank
Grainger and TGANC Exec. VP Graham Boyd
visited often with the late NC Senator Jesse Helms
in Washington, D.C. |
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Of
his involvement in TGANC, Frank says, “As a founding director of
the Tobacco Growers Assn. of North Carolina and as chairman of its Government
Relations Committee, I have had the opportunity to impact tobacco’s
future, most recently with the quota buyout issue that is coming close
to reality in the U.S. Congress. As a fellow tobacco farmer and supporting
member of TGANC, I know growers are under tremendous pressure and it
is increasingly more difficult to keep the farm in business." |
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| Frank Grainger
(center) visits in Washington with Rep. Richard
Burr and former
Sen. Elizabeth Dole |
Frank Grainger talks with
current House Majority Leader John Boehner |
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“I
have spent many hours working to achieve the best solutions and maximum
opportunities for all of us in the legislative process. Why? It’s
because I care about all of us being able to stay in business growing
tobacco. As a crop protection supplier, I have a vested interest
in making sure tobacco farming is successful in the future." |
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Frank Grainger, along with TGANC directors David Rose and Sam Crews, meet with Attorney Keiran Shanahan (left), who led the fight and gained a favorable ruling from the NC Supreme Court on the Phase II tobacco issue.
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“I want growers to know that doing business with Fair Products means
fostering a business relationship, working on all the issues in our business
all year long. You need allies working and standing along side of you
to help win the battles that may put of out of the tobacco growing business.
That means all of us in the agribusiness industry, not just the farmers
alone, must engage and work tirelessly. I am committed to that goal and
look forward to moving ahead with you together.” |
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Frank Grainger (right), along with TGANC Executive Vice President Graham Boyd (left), discuss favorable NC Supreme Court hearing results with Attorney Reef Ivey, representing the Shanahan Group, and NC Ag Commissioner Steve Troxler.
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An Agriculture and Education Leader in NC |
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In
addition, Frank is a board member of the North Carolina Tobacco Foundation,
Inc., the Southern Crop Protection Association, and has served on the
NC State Grange Tobacco Executive Board.
An
avid supporter of North Carolina State University, Frank has served
as a university trustee and as a co-founder and chairman of NC State’s
Economic Development Coalition - 2000. Frank was also a founding member
of the North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences Alumni Society, and has also served as a director of NC State
Athletic Department’s Wolfpack Club.
A
strong advocate of advanced public education, Frank served three four-year terms on he UNC Board of Directors, where he sat
with fellow distinguished state leaders in guiding the future of the
UNC System. Frank also is a board member of the Research Triangle Foundation.
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Frank’s Tobacco Industry Awards/Honors |
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Outstanding TGANC Director Award
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NC
State Tobacco Greats-
B&W Export Leaf's Randy Harrison and Frank Grainger
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In 2009, Frank received a prestigious new award from the
Tobacco Farm Life Museum:
“In recognition of outstanding achievements to
NC’s Tobacco and Agricultural Community”
He’s now one of four that have been honored with this award:
NC Ag Commissioner Steve Troxler, long-time tobacco
veteran Bill Lamm, Frank, and retired NC State Tobacco Leader Bill Collins.
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Congratulations to Dr. Bill
Collins - a dear friend of Fair Products Inc. and the NC
tobacco industry!
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During a special dinner
and program attended by several hundred NC tobacco
growers and industry leaders held at the Angus Barn
Pavilion during the 2014 Southern Farm Show, Fair
Products Inc. president Frank Grainger
(left) and sales representative Parker
Phillips (right)
congratulated retired NC State University Extension
Tobacco Coordinator Dr. Bill Collins
(center) on his 50+ years of
significant contributions to the NC tobacco
industry.
At the event, Parker read
a special poem that he penned for the occasion
entitled an "Ode to Our 21st Century Tobacco Great!"
Known for meaningful poetry he's written over the
years about the NC tobacco industry, Parker's poem
cited the many accomplishments and memorable
"sayings" made famous by the industry's long-time
tobacco great.
Read the poem here
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