Tobacco Farming in Eastern North Carolina (Documentary)
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2014
- Join us as we follow along Jim Morris of Morris Farms throughout the day to day operation of Tobacco Farming in Eastern North Carolina.
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The smell of fresh, cured tobacco is one of the greatest aromas ever. Sweet, with a hint of molassas. I smoke a pipe and its the only tobacco smoke that people actually like being around.
for those that have never smelt cured tobacco it is the best smell in the world. spend a many a day working on those machines with my father. can say as much as i hated working on em id love to go back and do it one more time with him.
Damn right about the smell
It sure is
It’s the best
Do you guys know where this farm exactly is? If I drive, might they give me some freshly cured leaves?
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They mentioned it a couple of times but it's an odd word and not easy to understand. It's called Caratoke. But just look for Currituck, NC. It's in the EXTREME northeastern corner of the state... damn near in Virginia. You don't just drive past it, you pretty much have to be specifically going there. Friendly people though.
Great video. I grow tobacco on a small scale for personal consumption and found watching this quite interesting while smoking a Virginia/Burley/Izmir homemade cigarette.
There is a small trend in America now where you can buy small quantities of whole cured leaf tobacco online. I love it. Just a little manual shredder and injector machine. Then I get the raw hemp tubes with hemp cotton filters. A little work for a better product and degradable butts. You can get all organic too. I like what I heard an old farmer say once, "Fifty years ago, everything was organic."
I buy the organic leaf and make my own cigs with organic tubes as well. I also sprinkle a layer of activated charcoal on top of the natural filter before I load it with the tobacco which removes 60% of the cancer causing free radicals, 80% of the carbon monoxide, and reduces nictotine level by 30%, all based on clinical studies. People forget that modern cigs have bleached paper, plastic filters that release toxins when heated, the cigs are filled with reconsituted tobacco which is laced with ammonia to make it more addictive, and numbing agents.
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Great TV. You wouldn't get these sort of documentaries in the UK. Interesting pricing. USD2:10 per pound. Raw tobacco wholesale in the UK (not direct from farmer) USD35 per pound. Retail in the UK, once all the chemicals have been added and packaged and TAXES etc., USD375 per pound. Farmer does all the work. Government makes all the money.
BBC documentaries are much better than most public network documentary in the US.
In my opinion, you're leaving out another major group profiting from tobacco at the expense of the farmer: the tobacco companies. Yes, taxes are high on tobacco. But man oh man do those tobacco companies make some money. Billions and billions of dollars. So, those middlemen take a huge cut: the processors, wholesalers, and retailers. I'm a pipe smoker, so I only buy boutique tobaccos blended in a tobacconist or from a small, private company like Cornell and Diehl. I don't inhale and am not addicted to nicotine. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on cannabis taxes. The taxes on recreational cannabis in the United States are immense in the states that have them, and the money is often earmarked for such purposes as education. I am against taxes for discouraging use but am not against them for funding such endeavors as healthcare and education.
That's the same beautiful socialist government Democrats want to impose on the U.S. ,,,,,but of course you guys over there in the U.K. everything is for free, right? Medicine, schooling, houses, utilities and so on.
Big trend in Canada now back then the roots of smoking natural tobacco, commercial tobacco companies ruined cigarettes and government ruined the affordability. Raw leaf tobacco is still considered an agricultural commodity in Canada so taxes are minimal and we can import from the US 15kg/year for personal use.
What a stark difference between how cigar makers handle their leave and how y’all do when its just general tobacco use.
12:14 some sort of fly lands on the one dudes nose and crawls inside!
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how could he not feel that? that funny as crap. Must be the same family of fly on VP Pence's head. Like, Ninja fly.
Cool video! What an operation!
great video very eye opening
Great Video!
It's good when your product is prompted. Gesture🌍
Not much of it in the piedmont but as soon as we head out east and into the sandhills you see tobacco everywhere.
I lived in Indian Trail for 9 years. Loved it there.
Bertie County! Four thausn pauns! Raun the haus!
Good job
we still farm like they did in the 60's
Where? How big is your operation? Are you commercial?
zimbabwe 20.hacters much.work is done manualy firewood stil used for curing and convectional burns but still.people make a living out if it.fetching 5 us per kilo
This guy sounds like he's reading a book
Fast forward to late 2023. My 25g tobacco pouch is $61.00 aud per 25g pouch. Because apparently charging ppl high prices cuts down new smoking?? These farmers get nothing in comparison. 210 dollars us a bail?? 9 years ago. I doubt its doubled at most. Its still a pittance. Great vid. Does Jim have any daughters?? lol.
Why not start with 1900 when cigarettes built every college and town with new wealth for the South? Mr. Duke invented the drug distribution system like the Model T: The cigarette! Ever heard of Duke University etc. and the tobacco wars that created this huge industry the size of the Ford, General Motors etc. industries?
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Hi Corey. How come those leaves are allowed to over rippen, shouldn't they be picked when they just start turning golden? Will that also affect the final weight?
I enjoyed watching and learning a bit about tobacco production on a commercial scale. I think I’d enjoy working there. The smell alone would be heaven I imagine. $2.10 a pound is criminal. Wages, electricity, machinery maintenance etc. it should be bringing in more than that for the farmers.
Like everything else, it’s foreign competition. Only about 25% of the Tobacco used in this country is grown here. The rest comes from Brazil, India, and Africa, and it’s driven the price down. American farmers can’t compete with child labor.
I'd rather be employed by a tobacco farm and get farm benefits, that would put a huge dent in my day to day costs of things.
Did a lot of tobacco in Ga back in the early 70s
good video...nothing like it was when i was working in the fields around 76-80...a lot more labor involved..i was a cropper and rode on a harvester.....we had to plant it....sucker it...we did use bulk barnes but had to use racks....it was nasty work..got sick a lot from the chemicals and the nicotine..i remember as a child watching and sort of helping my parents n grandparents..walk behind a mule...hang it on a stick..then put it in a tobacco barn..take it off and wrap it in a big burlap bundle...it was handled much more delicately then now...but i loved the smell of it cured..but hated any tobacco product then and even more now..it needs to go but you cant just cut off the farmer....its so bad for you..
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Georgians were living better than us Tarheels back then. I made $20 a day in 1979 cropping from first light til the last stick was hung on the bottom tier on those 5 room barns. Often 6 in the afternoon/evening. Hated the hell out of it but I would love so much to relive it.
Great video
Hope morris farm excel it's production and profits in the future
So what about the procces of growing them? Are they injecting the soil with fertilizer containing radio active isotopes for instance?
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I notice that the owner is using almost 100% Latino labor, probably several with no "green card". This is what's wrong with American farming of every type,....commercial farms getting government subsidies and crop insurance at taxpayer expense while paying almost nothing in wages to people who should not be here. We don't raise ANY tobacco in my state like that.
Actually the wages are very good. Americans tend to be more lazy and don’t want to do hard labor, so farmers don’t have a choice, but to outsource the labor to people willing to do the work.
@@The-Hoggards I retired 2 years ago after 42 years as a pipeline construction worker that has traveled the US across countless fields of rice, tobacco, wheat, corn, soybeans, cotton, and every other crop imaginable. For the big commercial farms the labor is always the same,...Illegals working for peanuts, most of them living in shacks or the barns with a dozen illegitimate bastards in tow, looking for food stamps or a medical card. The farmers story is the same everywhere. They want the very cheapest labor they can find and they are willing to break the law to get it. I saw them arrested by ICE all the time and get deported, only to be right back in a week or two in the same spot. They come back from south of the border carrying TB, measles, pneumonia, whooping cough, VD, and lots of other stuff that spreads like wildfire. Pipeline crews are not much different, hiring illegal trash that infects and shuts down entire crews with their diseases. We had one rule. Never teach a Latino ANY trade here. They all need to be deported and shot if they return again illegally. As for lazy, they all say it is too hot to work in Mexico, that is why they are here. The only reason they work for peanuts is because they are dumb as a box of rocks and they don't have to worry about some drug lord robbing them blind here like it is down south of the border. I have seen it all. Been there, done that. Americans won't work a 4 month job with no future is what you should have said.
I'm from Indonesia I have a video of growing tobacco to harvesting in the fields, still in the traditional way
Excuse me, do you know any books on tobacco modulation? I am from mainland China and work in tobacco. I want to learn foreign tobacco processing knowledge and pipes making techniques. Do you know a more professional way of learning? Good days.
I hated those damn boxes. Most dangerous things I've ever been around. We only worked them for two years, then went back to racks.
But the do speed up the process tremendously.
what were dangerous about them?
@@bluecloud6437 they were difficult to work with, that coupled with the fact that they weighed so much. If one fell on someone...
Anybody know where this farm exactly is? If I drive, might they give me some freshly cured leaves?
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is this tobacco that will be used as smokeless or smoked?
Flue cured is used in all tobacco products.
I have my lip all full of in tabacos very salty minty juicy brown snuff
Not thw back breaking way we used to do it in the 60'sand 70's. Easy as pie here.
Not a labor intensive as I recall back on the 1960's and look at all the leaves on the ground! My dad would not be able to endure this. If the machine ran over and damaged a green leaf someone would get a verbal lashing. The driver of any equipment best not damage a single stalk!
I was just looking at this with my mouth wide open thinking the same. Technology and quality expectations are totally not the same as back in the day- I don't smoke and happy for that. LOL- you better no crop the green leaves, drop on ground, or takeoff/ pack green stems. We had to neatly placed/ laid out the bacca in a circular pattern on a huge burlap sheet/ tarp. Took some muscle to tie the bale and lift into the flatbed farm truck...no forklift only country muscle. HATED suckering and topping the most...urghh.
that tobacco must be to make cigarettes or fillers. . can't imagine a cigar being made with those leave full of holes.
¿Dónde está el amor
no hay amor. estoy es business.
erm, definately seen it handled better, but cool.
Pretty work on the footage. No offense but you don't "Pick" tobacco lol. You can crop, prime, pull, or harvest tobacco. Just a little lingo from a tobacco farmer. Keep up good word bud.
In North Carolina they said picking Virginia we pulled it
In Poland, any firm (Phillip Morris and Unversal) do not buy this tobacco. This firm buy only a the best class tobacco. This firm buy only the best class tobbaco Virginia 10zł= 2,5 USD. Tobacco in this film is middlling a 3 class. Sorry, about my English.
+Kamil Chwalik flue-cured farming is centered in north carolina not virginia, this is in north carolina, and you're not seeing the final product in this
Back to old time, all cigarettes good quality and unique, now cigarreste low quality and no unique. Most cigarrete mix ưith 50% paper
Morris Farms should be ashamed of themselves for such a low quality operation that produces such low quality tobacco.
Part of me wants to blame the farmer as well. However given the current market it's hard to hate on someone that MUST deal with the industry he grows for and sadly the tobacco industry like most isn't going to pay more to have better tobacco and less of it.
If there wasnt a market for low quality, he wouldn't be spending his time making low quality. Somebody is going to provide it, it just happens to be this guy. You'd probably be surprised how most of the major brands are lined up to buy this same quality product.
@@Pinion512 Makes sense. Just hurts my heart.
Ugly tab