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Cutting tobacco pic.

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Larry in GA.

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On the way home from our Saturday feed store run, I passed by where my neighbor was finishing up harvesting his tobacco, They are using two different kinds of cutters this time one with a pull behind trailer that later dumps in the bus and one that cuts it and loads it straight into the bus
this is about 3 or 4 weeks after the other pictures I posted where they cut the bottom three sets of leaves off (three separate passes) with a different machine. Both operations use the converted school buses to haul it back to the drying barns.

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Larry
 
I like the pictures, you did a nice job. I've never seen tobacco picked but have seen only the typical wheat,corn,and bean combining. Thanks
 
Wow, thanks for the pics. I'll bet 90% of the people on this site like me have never seen tobacco harvested... I have never seen a tobacco field.
 
Sure looks alot easier than the way we used to have to do it. No cutting,sticking & hanging.Still remember the sticky juice getting all over me and climbing on those small trees that were across the barn that would roll if you weren't exta careful. Kinda miss it tho. Don't even see much raised around here anymore. Keith
 
You'll never know just how lucky you are.

We're in the middle of cutting season here in Kentucky. A couple neighbors were hauling wagons loaded with Tobacco past the house yesterday. If you've never had the pleasure of climbing around in a tier barn and hanging it, or even cutting and sticking it in the field, you don't know what you're missing. That fancy machinery makes it look easy. The old fashioned way sent many a farm boy looking for life in the big city.
 
You see so many places growing 1 or 2 acres, I guess I just assumed there weren't any big tobacco operations left. How many acres in that field? Tobacco is still grown on quotas, isn't it (each grower limited to so many acres)?
 
Nice pictures, sure wish we would've harvested it back in my teen days like that. I might not have hated it so much.
 
(quoted from post at 08:17:06 08/22/10) You see so many places growing 1 or 2 acres, I guess I just assumed there weren't any big tobacco operations left. How many acres in that field? Tobacco is still grown on quotas, isn't it (each grower limited to so many acres)?
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thanks for sharing the pics, never seen a pull behind cutter b4. up my way they still cut and harvest by hand. around here they grow either broadleaf or shade tobacco, wondering if thats why they don't have any mechanized harvesting? i'm sure for the shade no mechanized harvest as that machine wouldn't fit under the shade netting. used to be loads of shade and broadleaf grown up my way , these days not so much anymore, there are still a couple of large growers not far from me.
 
Nice pictures, thanks for educating me. I thought they still did all that by hand. Guess I never gave it alot of thought but should have known better especially in this day and time.
 
No quota system any longer. That went away a few years ago. Most of it is grown on contract now days. A few smaller operations still grow without a contract. Here in Central Ky, we grow Burley, with flue cured grown in Western Ky.
 
Dark (Chewing type) tobacco is still done almost all by hand. It is more brittle and mechanical equipment will bruse it.

Dave
 
No more quotas, they ended about 6 years ago. Here in Western KY there is not as much burley grown as there used to be, but we still raise alot of dark air and fire cured. There are not many small growers any more. I have a 6,000 lb contract with US and I am one of the smallest contracts they have. Several folks have over 100 acres, all done by hand.

Dave
 
Though I've never grown tobacco on my land, I've been around tobacco growers all of my life. Several of my neighbors still grow it.

I've never seen a machine for cutting tobacco. Around here, most tobacco is cut by folks from south of the border.

Dean
 
Know what you are talking about Keith. It was called pulling back then, you only pulled the ripe leaves, no mo than 3 or 4 at a time tucking them under your arm until ya couldn't hold no mo then put them in a slide that if it won't being pulled by a mule it was a Fameral cub or A. Most was hand tied but by the time I didn't need that kinda money some had stitchers. Top man on the tier polls had it the best.
 
Hey idiot, what the farmer is doing with his machine is stripping the leaves off the stalk. The implement has an attachment to chop the stalks after the leaves are removed. I pray every night you yanks will go home.
 
Wow! When I was a kid we put the whole stalk on a stick and hung them in the barn to cure.
Year round job that was.
 
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