Company Background

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.

With the recent addition of T-Moxx™ tobacco insecticide to our product line-up, I’m proud to say that Fair Products, Inc. now manufactures and distributes the most complete and versatile group of tobacco crop care products available.

We are also pleased to announce that we are adding a FST-7® & Prime+® EC co-pack to our arsenal of tobacco care products. This combination will give you the absolute “Cadillac” of tobacco sucker control programs, combining the unparalleled effectiveness of FST-7 with the long-term control of Prime+. The co-pack includes two 3-gallon jugs of FST-7 and one 1-gallon jug of PRIME+ EC, enough of both products to spray exactly 2 acres of tobacco. The new co-pack provides the most economical and effective way to control suckers and avoid excessive MH residues buyers want to reduce MH residues.

After you’ve controlled your suckers, it will be time to spray our ethephon-based ripener, MATURE XL®. MATURE XL promotes early, uniform field yellowing of tobacco, reduces curing time, allows more efficient use of curing barn space and increases your control over harvest schedules. Most of all, you have ripe cured leaf to market.

Fair Products, Inc.'s high-quality products are:

• T-Moxx - Insecticide
• Fair 85 - Contact Sucker Control
• Fair Tac - Contact Sucker Control
• FST-7 - Contact & Systemic Sucker Control
• FST-7 & Prime+ Co-pack - Contact & Systemic & Local 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
• Mature XL - Ripening Agent in the Field
  

The new products have been tested in University tests and proven on farms like yours. Plus, they are available in easy-to-use and environmental-friendly packages and bulk systems.

Fair Products, Inc. has the most complete line of tobacco crop care products in the industry, a product line-up that will not only enhance the growth and maturity of the crop, but also protect your leaf against suckers and yield loss. Most importantly, products that will help you improve buyer demand for your leaf and maximize your bottom-line profits.

Manufacturing Plant at Wilmington, NC

H. Frank Grainger - Owner and Founder

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.

TGANC members tour Fair Products plant at Wilmington. Summer 2003

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.

Frank Grainger, NC House Speaker Jim Black & Ag Commissioner Jim Graham

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.

Frank Grainger and TGANC Exec. VP Graham Boyd visit Sen. Jesse Helms in Washington, D.C.	NC State Tobacco Greats- B&W Export Leaf's Randy Harrison and Frank Grainger

A strong advocate of advanced public education, Frank is serving his second four-year term as one of 32 General Assembly-elected members on the University of North Carolina (UNC) Board of Governors, where he sits with fellow distinguished state leaders in guiding the future of the UNC System. Frank also is a board member of the Research Triangle Foundation.

Frank Grainger with Rep. Richard Burr and Sen. Elizabeth Dole

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."

Frank and his wife, Judi, congratulate newly elected U.S. Senator John Edwards.

“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."

Frank Grainger reviews mechanized harvesting equipment with tobacco industry leaders.