We grew flu cured tobacco here in East Central Georgia until the early 80s but everything was so different then. 30 acres was considered to be a large allotment and most of the work was done by hand. The tobacco was cropped (picked) in stages, starting at the bottom of the plant and working up, lasting 4 to 5 weeks in July and August.
My great grandfather would role I've in his grave seeing those machines in the fields..He didn't believe in tractors or anything like until his kids talked him into getting one in the early 60s mid 60s.Farming was his life especially Tobacco season, Back then the Bacca he was planting was called barn buster Tobacco.
Back in my grandfather's time raising burley tobacco they did most everything by hand and when they readied their crop for market they graded it into 4 separate grades trash lugs reds and tips .He took extreme pride in how it was raised tended to and what it looked like when it went to market
WOW! It's great to see how things have become modernized, but this video has left me with so many questions. Things have changed since I worked the fields. It used to be cut with a knife and spear and put 6 stalks to a stick (unless the plants were small). Hung it in the barn, then put it down after it cured (only when it was in case). Then stripped, but divided into flines (not sure about spelling), lugs, reds and then pressed (or tied and pressed). How is it sorted in this new process? Is this burley, or something different? What about plants that have "suckers"...how is it separated? What about plants that are unhealthy in the field and usually left out there so it doesn't make it to the barn? ...and my step-dad would have kicked my ass if I left so many leaves laying around! LOL!
You're Thinking About Burley Tobacco this I believe is Flue Cured. I raised Burley myself until the price to grow it got so high that it wasn't worth it money wise.
Damn. I broke my back pickin. This is the only way to harvest. Thank goodness. I'll bet that tractor driver complains about how boring the job is. You can really get to market much faster if you mechanize.
not really, picking tobacco by hand is one of the worst farming jobs you can do (even picking cotton or beans is easy by comparison), they'd have loved having a machine to do it with
What I meant was ; in the old days each leaf was handled with much care ,cured , then graded into different grades etc . I wasn’t implying anything to the way it’s handled today . I grew up at the end of that era so I had personal experience with it . That’s all I was saying
Not to go off topic. But I live in the city with no barn. Is it at all possible to flue cure at home. I have space to grow my own plants and my area and apartment have the proper humidity condition to air cure. I've been searching to no luck for a way to flue cure that could be done without a barn or some giant contraption. For now my plan is to purchase the flue cure and grow/cure the air cure plants
All we had when I was a kid was a machete and your own back to cut/harvest tobacco, no machines. Then we'd race to the barn to be the first one to climb up to tot he top to hang it because the bottom man always had it much harder having to hand up the heavy sticks.
Wow! What an operation. And right here in Georgia! Guessing it is Bright tobacco. Things sure are different from my Grand Pa's day. No market and auction or fairs. You contacted buy? Thanx for posting!
This makes me sad! So sad. So many ppl put out of work. This is how we survived as a child in the 80's. I know it's progress and good for the boss man buuuuut..... I don't like it. Sometimes I think that we are getting too big for our britches. Need to keep things simple. Idk, what do I know? Just a small town grrl from northern Kentucky.
In Brazil, its not mechanical, is very hard and all manual the harvest. Amazing in the US. My dream Someday work a Farm in the US. Sorry my mistakes in english 😀👏
Is it normal to have so much waste on the ground everywhere? it seems like at every stage (of this video) there's a lot left on the ground. just wondering.
Very interesting. Apparently this green tobacco doesn't mold after it's put in the metal container and put on the trailer to cure? Is there some kind of air circulation in this curing trailer? This really got my curiosity going.
@@MrFeralhog Does tobacco plants deplete the soil of nutrients faster, than let's say maze? Is this tobacco for smoking or chewing or both. Thank you for a response.
Tobacco depletes the soil more than most common crops. I have no idea what type of tobacco they are harvesting in this video. Flue cured was what I worked in many moons ago. It required heat in the barns to cure. I hear some of the burley (cigar tobacco) air dries. If this is burley in this video the barns are probably just using fans to circulate air.
Back to old time, cigarettes very good quality and had unique of each brand. Now all have the same and low quality because harvest and mix with a lot off paper
@@joefudd even grading it out and hand stripping it with the support price off the table growers in my area have stopped growing got tired of getting screwed over all the contract is just a promise to look at what you havee to sell around here anyway
I'm gonna be growing tobacco and selling it here soon you better up your game bro treat and grow it like organic medicine that has to be tested by gas chromatography for no trace minerals, chemicals, or pesticides, fungus, or foreign contaminants, etc, then sell it as a farmer should and don't drag your product in the dirt, and upon greasy rails from your poorly engineered "farming" equipment
If you knew anything about tobacco, you'd realize these guys are at the top of the food chain. You'll do well with your hand manicured small batches, but to challenge THEM to 'up their game'? My sides hurt from laughing. Let me know when you get close to catching up with them, I mean it's been two years since you posted that. LOL
It's cigarette tobacco, not cigar tobacco. Do you also watch a video of how grapes bound for the supermarket instead of wine are handled and bemoan how that's not a way to treat a grape as well?
Really, I'm disgusted and would never ever ever treat any plant especially ones ingested like you do. You should take a few hundred steps back and rethink your process before karma gets you
Brent Morgan Good luck. I doubt you will hand produce in a lifetime what they do in a couple days. I’m all for organic growing and your assumptions their leaf is contaminated is very ignorant.
We grew flu cured tobacco here in East Central Georgia until the early 80s but everything was so different then.
30 acres was considered to be a large allotment and most of the work was done by hand.
The tobacco was cropped (picked) in stages, starting at the bottom of the plant and working up, lasting 4 to 5 weeks in July and August.
My great grandfather would role I've in his grave seeing those machines in the fields..He didn't believe in tractors or anything like until his kids talked him into getting one in the early 60s mid 60s.Farming was his life especially Tobacco season, Back then the Bacca he was planting was called barn buster Tobacco.
The most beautiful crop in my opinion. So much respect for the old timers who had no machinery.
Lotta Amish still plant and harvest like that
Back in my grandfather's time raising burley tobacco they did most everything by hand and when they readied their crop for market they graded it into 4 separate grades trash lugs reds and tips .He took extreme pride in how it was raised tended to and what it looked like when it went to market
I live right down the road from this operation in scuffletown. it is awesome to drive by and see it in action!
Is there a lot of tobacco growing down there?
Какой это сорт?
my grandpa would have wished he could harvest his tobacco like that 50 years ago.
My too...
WOW! It's great to see how things have become modernized, but this video has left me with so many questions. Things have changed since I worked the fields. It used to be cut with a knife and spear and put 6 stalks to a stick (unless the plants were small). Hung it in the barn, then put it down after it cured (only when it was in case). Then stripped, but divided into flines (not sure about spelling), lugs, reds and then pressed (or tied and pressed). How is it sorted in this new process? Is this burley, or something different? What about plants that have "suckers"...how is it separated? What about plants that are unhealthy in the field and usually left out there so it doesn't make it to the barn? ...and my step-dad would have kicked my ass if I left so many leaves laying around! LOL!
Same here. It was hot sweaty dusty work.
You're Thinking About Burley Tobacco this I believe is Flue Cured. I raised Burley myself until the price to grow it got so high that it wasn't worth it money wise.
Wow. This was amazing. These farmers work hard and clearly play hard. Love it 👍🏽😎
That's like the worlds largest motor Trike lmao
Damn. I broke my back pickin. This is the only way to harvest. Thank goodness. I'll bet that tractor driver complains about how boring the job is. You can really get to market much faster if you mechanize.
"Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it"
They are about to get paid handsomely from that dirty weed
Who is here after watching the Amish harvest tobacco by hand? 🤣
Damnit lol
Old tobacco farmers would turn over in there graves , if they saw this !
Lol, true we did everything by hand
old tobacco farmers acctually were be quite impressed and astonished by how clean the process is
not really, picking tobacco by hand is one of the worst farming jobs you can do (even picking cotton or beans is easy by comparison), they'd have loved having a machine to do it with
What I meant was ; in the old days each leaf was handled with much care ,cured , then graded into different grades etc . I wasn’t implying anything to the way it’s handled today . I grew up at the end of that era so I had personal experience with it . That’s all I was saying
Not to go off topic. But I live in the city with no barn. Is it at all possible to flue cure at home. I have space to grow my own plants and my area and apartment have the proper humidity condition to air cure. I've been searching to no luck for a way to flue cure that could be done without a barn or some giant contraption. For now my plan is to purchase the flue cure and grow/cure the air cure plants
Awesome video but would need more description.
That is some pretty tobacco. Good color to it. Great setup too.
Awesome video bud, what's that tobacco going to be used for?
All we had when I was a kid was a machete and your own back to cut/harvest tobacco, no machines. Then we'd race to the barn to be the first one to climb up to tot he top to hang it because the bottom man always had it much harder having to hand up the heavy sticks.
Wow! What an operation. And right here in Georgia! Guessing it is Bright tobacco. Things sure are different from my Grand Pa's day. No market and auction or fairs. You contacted buy? Thanx for posting!
How do they dry that? We have to hang ours in barns and let it air dry.
This makes me sad! So sad. So many ppl put out of work. This is how we survived as a child in the 80's. I know it's progress and good for the boss man buuuuut..... I don't like it. Sometimes I think that we are getting too big for our britches. Need to keep things simple. Idk, what do I know? Just a small town grrl from northern Kentucky.
In Brazil, its not mechanical, is very hard and all manual the harvest. Amazing in the US. My dream Someday work a Farm in the US. Sorry my mistakes in english 😀👏
Very interesting video! There is none grown up here in Manitoba Canada.
nothing like the fresh cut smell of cancer in the morning.
I'm from Indonesia I have a video of growing tobacco to harvesting in the fields, still in the traditional way
Is it normal to have so much waste on the ground everywhere? it seems like at every stage (of this video) there's a lot left on the ground. just wondering.
Jamie Palmer of looks very minimal to me
Jamie Palmer
Most of that waste u see is stalks and sucker leaves.
Jamie Palmer it’s the stems of the plant
No such thing as a tobacco stem. It’s called stalk.
Hireath No such thing as a tobacco stem? Not including the veins in the leaves that are stems, you mean?
Looks much easier than cutting by hand but the waste is relevant to mechanization
I used to harvest with my dad, we used old school buses that had the backs broken off
1st machine I've seen that cuts the stalk as it strips it. Tobacco today isn't like it use to be. I've seen it 5ft tall.. no where near that nowadays.
I miss how we harvesting tobacco manually. We are producing tons of it one season a year luckily i never smoke cigar😂
Does the tobacco grow back? Or do you have to replant?
Jonathan Lio replant
Very interesting. Apparently this green tobacco doesn't mold after it's put in the metal container and put on the trailer to cure? Is there some kind of air circulation in this curing trailer? This really got my curiosity going.
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@@MrFeralhog Does tobacco plants deplete the soil of nutrients faster, than let's say maze? Is this tobacco for smoking or chewing or both. Thank you for a response.
Tobacco depletes the soil more than most common crops. I have no idea what type of tobacco they are harvesting in this video. Flue cured was what I worked in many moons ago. It required heat in the barns to cure. I hear some of the burley (cigar tobacco) air dries. If this is burley in this video the barns are probably just using fans to circulate air.
Back to old time, cigarettes very good quality and had unique of each brand. Now all have the same and low quality because harvest and mix with a lot off paper
Look at that green goodness
Smells awesome as it hangs and cures in the barn!
Can I buy the tobacco leaves in the video? fcv right?
how do you make any money without gradeing the tabacco out
You don't make as much, that's for sure. We always had to grade and hand strip.
@@joefudd even grading it out and hand stripping it with the support price off the table growers in my area have stopped growing got tired of getting screwed over all the contract is just a promise to look at what you havee to sell around here anyway
Isn't one of the fruit of the loom guys a tobacco leaf?
Enjoyed this very much 🤠👍😁
what sort of tobacco is this?
Virginia flue cured. For cigarettes
What type of tobacco is that?
Kristijan Fauković looks like Virginia
who is singing the song
Hank Williams, Jr.
Nice
We see the process
Who built the picker
www.granvilleequipment.com/
How much is tobacco in purchase per kg?
"dont smell the flowers there an evil drug to make you lose your mind
Wow. Amazing...
So great!!
That's a lot of smoke!
I thought it was hung up to dry....this must be the new method of drying it.....I suppose much faster...interesting
These are bulk curing barns and have been used for many, many years. Hot air is forced through the racks to cure it.
i like this technology i want to try in Macedonia to have a lot of production
Сколько листа на земле остаётся.....
That was very cool!
Wonderful!
Nice!
I want to do this kind of business too.
Ok
No Drying from field to bailer , strange….
Hmmzz.. so how many lung cancers per acre is the yield?
Salesperson about Harvester: *Slaps bin* This baby can fit so much fucking cancer in it!
Lord knows I've smoked enough of that shit in the last 45 years
BRB have to go smoke.
No difference from these videos of the the people harvesting coca leaves in bolivia they profiting off peoples addictions or misery
You could make a business out of all the wasted leaves...
I run @georgia_agriculture on Instagram, do you mind if I repost this video? Will give you full credit.
Russell Chapman Certainly
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Interesting.
I'm gonna be growing tobacco and selling it here soon you better up your game bro treat and grow it like organic medicine that has to be tested by gas chromatography for no trace minerals, chemicals, or pesticides, fungus, or foreign contaminants, etc, then sell it as a farmer should and don't drag your product in the dirt, and upon greasy rails from your poorly engineered "farming" equipment
If you knew anything about tobacco, you'd realize these guys are at the top of the food chain. You'll do well with your hand manicured small batches, but to challenge THEM to 'up their game'? My sides hurt from laughing. Let me know when you get close to catching up with them, I mean it's been two years since you posted that. LOL
mmmmmmm copenhagen winter green
Tobacco has demonize beyond reality..
Lap
you are not farmers, firstly, and you damn sure are not tobacco farmers. That may be the worst quality tobacco I have ever seen
The worst quality tobacco you have ever seen? they aren't farmers? Go back to hiding behind your keyboard
That is not the way to handle tobacco. That's just a plain fact.
It's cigarette tobacco, not cigar tobacco. Do you also watch a video of how grapes bound for the supermarket instead of wine are handled and bemoan how that's not a way to treat a grape as well?
I’ll trust the guys with a multimillion dollar setup over your speculative ass any day
I’ll trust the guys with a multimillion dollar setup over your speculative ass any day
Really, I'm disgusted and would never ever ever treat any plant especially ones ingested like you do. You should take a few hundred steps back and rethink your process before karma gets you
Brent Morgan Good luck. I doubt you will hand produce in a lifetime what they do in a couple days. I’m all for organic growing and your assumptions their leaf is contaminated is very ignorant.