Good for you for not taking the buyout. I miss seeing all the tobacco that used to be grown here in Kentucky when I was a kid. Only a few farmers still do it around here as well.
It's good to see that this farmer in the video still grows tobacco. I liked his explanation regarding life sentences. He has a good outlook and I wish him success.
My great grandfather was one of the biggest and most sought after tobacco farmers in Calvert county. The farm sat along Broomes island rd. It was enormous and just beautiful. My grandparents sold the remaining land a few years ago and now it’s being developed. Really sad to see. That area was magnificent to spend my summers in while growing up. Lots of history in those woods too.
You really need to join us in 2022. Smoking anything is harmful to the lungs. Just because 1 method of smoking is less harmful than another, doesn't make any kind of smoking ok. It is an idiotic thing to say.
Indeed people dont understand what they put in tabacco. Crying about harmfull to your lungs but dont realise the parfume and deodorants are more harmfull for the lungs and body. ANd other spraying cleaners
I was given some tobacco seeds, started, transplanted, and now they are 6 tall. I did as a joke, but now they are big , full and beautiful, lol. I have about 15-20 plants almost ready to begin harvesting, now what! I don't smoke or anything...great video!
Make some home made chew out of it and sell it to friends maybe, that's about the easiest thing. If you can get them to color cure is another thing. Some varieties need to be flu cured and it's way harder to do.
I was a harvester in kentucky they arent lying about the long hot days so many blisters on my back then you had to get up before the sun the next day so sore you cant even wear a shirt to do it all again after a while it dont bug you tho i beleive we put 6 stalks on a stick and got paid 10 cents a stick.. getting way up in that barn is terrifying after your half dead from the sun all day all shaky haha
They paid me for an honest days work. I had no problem with it. Getting money isnt always easy i had to survive they gave me an opportunity i could have said no ...so no its not slavery i had a choice ...kinda
Moved here in 1983. Driving the back roads of southern Maryland looking for ponds to fish there would be acres and acres of tobacco. The sweet smell when it was hanging in the barns curing is like none other. Lawyers saw a cash cow in the form of targeting big tobacco and made a killing out of it. The farmer took it on the chin.
"But I'm fine to be a sellout because I have no feeling of community." Great on the guy who declined the buyout, the government has no business to get involved.
But the U.S. Government has to make sure other countries can utilize all that slave labor. Guys the children need to be in the fields . It’s not like they have schools to attend .
@@bradleybrown8399 Millions of people don't die of tobacco related cancer each year. A million people don't die of that each year. Of the people who die of lung cancer supposedly associated with tobacco, it's not known what other factors were involved. I smoked for 30 years. My lungs were clear before I quit. My lungs remained clear afterwards. I was physically active and was never sedentary. Someone who smokes alot, and btw, alot means 2 or more packs a day, NOT A SINGLE PACK a day. Those people combined with poor nutrition and inactivity are far more likely to die of lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease. My stepfather smoked right up till he died at 85 years old. He didn't die of cancer or heart disease. He died of brain bleed which had nothing to do with smoking. He smoked ALOT. He was very physically active and had great nutritional habits. I'd love to learn how to grow my own tobacco.
@@helkas3316 From the Centers for Disease Control : Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death. Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7 million deaths per year.2 If the pattern of smoking all over the globe doesn’t change, more than 8 million people a year will die from diseases related to tobacco use by 2030.3 Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.1 On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.4
In March? What kind of tobacco do you grow? We gassed the beds in December, later we mixed the almost microscopic seeds with fertilizer and broadcasted it into the now clean beds. Once the plants came up we transplanted it to our fields. But not in March. You probably grow Burley tobacco don't you?
they sold out for short term money gains so the big guy could have monopoly on the market. they are pushing narrative that the farmers did the right thing but actually they have been tricked cause long term they could be making big money growing tobacco with how high prices are now. so the government and big companies now have total domination of the market
I never worked with air cured tobacco like that. We had flue cured in eastern NC. Harvested a few leaves each week instead of whole stalk. Our mountain areas in western NC grew air cured.
Yeah it's just how it's done here in somd. I've heard the same thing from talking to guys from work training about the heated curing barns they have now.
I'm a Finger Lakes New Yorker. I bet most people think the state that grew the most tobacco, are states like Maryland, Virginia, Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, & other southern states. But did you know that the #1 tobacco growing state at the height of tobacco production, was Connecticut, yup, that's right, more than any other state!
My grandfather and family grew tabbaco in southern also. Most of the barns are still standing on the farm that doesn't farm anything anymore. It us hard work for what you get paid from what I'm told. Also the tabbaco auction house still stands in hughesville and us now a place called the barging barn with random shops. Just a little more memories from the day of tabbaco.
Grandfather grew it when we lived in davidsonville , he built his on planters pulled behind the old alice chalmers , Massey Ferguson tractors we had then . Awesome memory’s !
I was raised on a farm in Georgia growing flue cured Tobacco. I remember 6 sales warehouses in Moultrie where the Tobacco was sold at auction. We both grew the "weed" and we had trucks for hire to haul the product to market. for other farmers. All gone now. The warehouses are closed and there are very few producers to be found, and there was no buyout. Maryland got in too big of a hurry. It would have ended there just like it did in Georgia. Honestly, I do not regret it. Hard nasty hot backbreaking work that I will not miss.
I think they should keep growing it in Maryland and anywhere they have grown it in the past. People are still going to use tobacco and now instead they buy it from Africa and South America. We should be growing it here where we have control over the pesticides that are used and it can provide income for local farmers.
This old farmer seems like a nice guy. They mention his main business is cattle now. His farm probably would be better off if he did take that deal. Tho he'd have to find another passion crop.
I don't know how Maryland buyout was but I would say it was the same as Kentucky's buyout. You either took the money or you didn't take the buyout money. That agreement would let tobacco growers grow all the tobacco they wanted to but the grower had to find a buyer. If you could not sell your crop then you was stuck with a crop of tobacco. I was a burley farmer and grew 65 acres most years. When the buyout came through tobacco companies still bought our tobacco at a cheaper per pound price. Then after a few years they quit signing tobacco contracts with the farmers in my area. I lost my tobacco contracts and lost tobacco income. Now I may have to sell my land because I cannot make enough money from my farms to live on and make my farm payments. I loved tobacco farming but now I wish I had picked a different career. Growing tobacco is hard work and I am now too old and broke down to get a job. Health problems from working in my tobacco crops.
I forgot to add that just because you didn't take the buyout money didn't mean that was the only way you could keep growing . Farmers who took the buyout could still grow as much tobacco as they wanted to. No matter if you took the buyout money or not you still had to find a place to sell your crop. Finding a company to sell your crop to became hard to find.
Well done that man , sticking with tradition, i hope all goes well with his tobacco growing.
Good for you for not taking the buyout. I miss seeing all the tobacco that used to be grown here in Kentucky when I was a kid. Only a few farmers still do it around here as well.
It's good to see that this farmer in the video still grows tobacco. I liked his explanation regarding life sentences. He has a good outlook and I wish him success.
My great grandfather was one of the biggest and most sought after tobacco farmers in Calvert county.
The farm sat along Broomes island rd. It was enormous and just beautiful. My grandparents sold the remaining land a few years ago and now it’s being developed. Really sad to see. That area was magnificent to spend my summers in while growing up. Lots of history in those woods too.
I lived in Calvert county Maryland , glen Bernie , Bowie , Waldorf , born in prince georges county
Never sell your land.
Extremely grateful for a real man of principle! Tobacco is not the problem, cigarettes are the problem and it is continually being proven in studies.
You really need to join us in 2022. Smoking anything is harmful to the lungs. Just because 1 method of smoking is less harmful than another, doesn't make any kind of smoking ok. It is an idiotic thing to say.
@@matthewyabsley modern studies do not agree with you.
what do you they put in cigarettes, sawdust? wheat flour? pocket lint? 🙄
Indeed people dont understand what they put in tabacco. Crying about harmfull to your lungs but dont realise the parfume and deodorants are more harmfull for the lungs and body. ANd other spraying cleaners
@@matthewyabsley pipes and cigars aren't inhaled. Obviously there is still a risk to the throat, mouth and nasal passages but not to the lungs.
Hat off for this gentleman! And a loooooot of respect!!!!!!
I was given some tobacco seeds, started, transplanted, and now they are 6 tall. I did as a joke, but now they are big , full and beautiful, lol. I have about 15-20 plants almost ready to begin harvesting, now what! I don't smoke or anything...great video!
Make some home made chew out of it and sell it to friends maybe, that's about the easiest thing. If you can get them to color cure is another thing. Some varieties need to be flu cured and it's way harder to do.
Can make a alcohol based tobacco extract for cologne/perfume. Also a natural pesticide so an extract can be used like deet or on other plants.
I was a harvester in kentucky they arent lying about the long hot days so many blisters on my back then you had to get up before the sun the next day so sore you cant even wear a shirt to do it all again after a while it dont bug you tho i beleive we put 6 stalks on a stick and got paid 10 cents a stick.. getting way up in that barn is terrifying after your half dead from the sun all day all shaky haha
Big dog. Thats not the way it should work, thats called SLAVERY my friend.
They paid me for an honest days work. I had no problem with it. Getting money isnt always easy i had to survive they gave me an opportunity i could have said no ...so no its not slavery i had a choice ...kinda
I'm really curious about those blisters on your back? 🤔🤔
Moved here in 1983. Driving the back roads of southern Maryland looking for ponds to fish there would be acres and acres of tobacco. The sweet smell when it was hanging in the barns curing is like none other. Lawyers saw a cash cow in the form of targeting big tobacco and made a killing out of it. The farmer took it on the chin.
"But I'm fine to be a sellout because I have no feeling of community." Great on the guy who declined the buyout, the government has no business to get involved.
But the U.S. Government has to make sure other countries can utilize all that slave labor. Guys the children need to be in the fields . It’s not like they have schools to attend .
"community" 🙄 phuck that. the guy says murder and marriage is a life sentence. Well, tobacco is a death sentence for millions every year.
@@bradleybrown8399 Millions of people don't die of tobacco related cancer each year. A million people don't die of that each year. Of the people who die of lung cancer supposedly associated with tobacco, it's not known what other factors were involved. I smoked for 30 years. My lungs were clear before I quit. My lungs remained clear afterwards. I was physically active and was never sedentary. Someone who smokes alot, and btw, alot means 2 or more packs a day, NOT A SINGLE PACK a day. Those people combined with poor nutrition and inactivity are far more likely to die of lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease. My stepfather smoked right up till he died at 85 years old. He didn't die of cancer or heart disease. He died of brain bleed which had nothing to do with smoking. He smoked ALOT. He was very physically active and had great nutritional habits. I'd love to learn how to grow my own tobacco.
@@helkas3316 From the Centers for Disease Control : Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death.
Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7 million deaths per year.2 If the pattern of smoking all over the globe doesn’t change, more than 8 million people a year will die from diseases related to tobacco use by 2030.3
Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.1
On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.4
@@ClaytonBigsby01
White flower! Clayton Bigsby has spoken!
I grew up on a tobacco farm in Calvert County and Prince George’s County Md now live in California and I miss the farm a lot
Great seeing the Russells on here, representing St. Mary's co. I can remember the "t'baca" fields, barns, and smells so well. So glad I can.
Hell yeah im growing my own this year!! Just planted my seeds
In March? What kind of tobacco do you grow? We gassed the beds in December, later we mixed the almost microscopic seeds with fertilizer and broadcasted it into the now clean beds. Once the plants came up we transplanted it to our fields. But not in March. You probably grow Burley tobacco don't you?
So interesting. I was given some tobacco seeds and was going to plant a few. Great segment.
How’d the plants turn out?
What a shame. I have grown tobacco in Alaska but not for a year or so. Next year I'll be planting some again. Screw the government.
they sold out for short term money gains so the big guy could have monopoly on the market. they are pushing narrative that the farmers did the right thing but actually they have been tricked cause long term they could be making big money growing tobacco with how high prices are now. so the government and big companies now have total domination of the market
Right on! Stick it to the Man!
I never worked with air cured tobacco like that. We had flue cured in eastern NC. Harvested a few leaves each week instead of whole stalk. Our mountain areas in western NC grew air cured.
They are picking the bottom leaves here in South Georgia right now
Yeah it's just how it's done here in somd. I've heard the same thing from talking to guys from work training about the heated curing barns they have now.
I’m a first generation cigar smoker. A brother of the leaf!
respect to the man dont take the buyt out
I'm a Finger Lakes New Yorker. I bet most people think the state that grew the most tobacco, are states like Maryland, Virginia, Carolina's, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Georgia, & other southern states. But did you know that the #1 tobacco growing state at the height of tobacco production, was
Connecticut, yup, that's right, more than any other state!
Used to help as a kid in the 70's . Got paid very little busting ass all day . St Mary's County Md .. Good memories.
this pipe smoker appreciates any/all growers
I recently became a pipe smoker. Switched from cigarettes. Amazing how much better a pipe is!
Yes it was a hot dirty job , but it helped me to buy new school clothes. I always had respect for farmers.
My grandfather and family grew tabbaco in southern also. Most of the barns are still standing on the farm that doesn't farm anything anymore. It us hard work for what you get paid from what I'm told. Also the tabbaco auction house still stands in hughesville and us now a place called the barging barn with random shops. Just a little more memories from the day of tabbaco.
Buyout was started way before year 2000
The Amish still grow it in St Mary’s county.
Just all across MD and PA...
I still grow it in my basement lol
Grow my own make pipe tobacco for a few friends.
Grandfather grew it when we lived in davidsonville , he built his on planters pulled behind the old alice chalmers , Massey Ferguson tractors we had then . Awesome memory’s !
Mention of Massey Ferguson brought back good memories I rode on my pawpaw's combine with him as they cut rice hear in Louisiana
@@brianheintz9912 oh ok , I’m in Baton Rouge
I'm around reeves, it's just west of kinder
Loved the smell of tobacco dried in the barn and stripping in the winter, best job I had in high school.
Need to grow my own.
Great, informative video, thank you.
I was raised on a farm in Georgia growing flue cured Tobacco. I remember 6 sales warehouses in Moultrie where the Tobacco was sold at auction. We both grew the "weed" and we had trucks for hire to haul the product to market. for other farmers. All gone now. The warehouses are closed and there are very few producers to be found, and there was no buyout. Maryland got in too big of a hurry. It would have ended there just like it did in Georgia. Honestly, I do not regret it. Hard nasty hot backbreaking work that I will not miss.
Nice video, thanks 🙏🏻
Good ol Brian, hope he has fun with those lil hay "bales"
Good to se this man growing tobacco!
Great video.
Really was educational to me.
Thank you.
I grew up on a tobacco farm in Port Tobacco, MD. Have you ever heard of Butch Tipton?
I remember those days ...
My respect to Mike
Wow tobacco is good boss
Quality tobacco are produced every year in pakistan as well
What types/kinds are grown there?
I am interested on farming tobacco and the final process .How will I have information on this pricess
I think they should keep growing it in Maryland and anywhere they have grown it in the past. People are still going to use tobacco and now instead they buy it from Africa and South America. We should be growing it here where we have control over the pesticides that are used and it can provide income for local farmers.
Thank you for this information. :)
My wife and myself raised tobacco .
Lovely,,,it's far safer then government and private business spraying and adding for profit sake....
Literally every tobacco video: Acoustic guitar in the background
Don't you'uns use Prime+ or MH30 to yellow out your tobacco?
Can I buy the tobacco leaves in the video? fcv right?
I been seeing his tobacco all my life going up Dunkirk
I want some of Mike's tobacco.
This old farmer seems like a nice guy. They mention his main business is cattle now. His farm probably would be better off if he did take that deal. Tho he'd have to find another passion crop.
BIG Tobacco!
Is it possible to find out who the two men were at 1:20
I don't know how Maryland buyout was but I would say it was the same as Kentucky's buyout. You either took the money or you didn't take the buyout money. That agreement would let tobacco growers grow all the tobacco they wanted to but the grower had to find a buyer. If you could not sell your crop then you was stuck with a crop of tobacco.
I was a burley farmer and grew 65 acres most years. When the buyout came through tobacco companies still bought our tobacco at a cheaper per pound price. Then after a few years they quit signing tobacco contracts with the farmers in my area. I lost my tobacco contracts and lost tobacco income. Now I may have to sell my land because I cannot make enough money from my farms to live on and make my farm payments.
I loved tobacco farming but now I wish I had picked a different career. Growing tobacco is hard work and I am now too old and broke down to get a job. Health problems from working in my tobacco crops.
I forgot to add that just because you didn't take the buyout money didn't mean that was the only way you could keep growing . Farmers who took the buyout could still grow as much tobacco as they wanted to. No matter if you took the buyout money or not you still had to find a place to sell your crop. Finding a company to sell your crop to became hard to find.
Ez szomorú.
This dude is based. And quiet redpilled
We don't cut tobacco like that in Kentucky
Stick with it.
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Well done, stick to traditional handwork.
Votetogrowathome
Nice farm, good farmer good old barn, sad that the USA and all others are destroying this culture of tobacco