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Post by puffy on Sept 28, 2017 12:41:35 GMT -5
As I have said here before.When I was a kid a lot of tobacco was grown here in Carolina.These days those that is not so slowly going away.A lot of the old tobacco fields now have buildings on them.Those who still farm mostly grow crops that can be grown with machines.Farm workers are hard to find and costly if you can find them.One of the main crops here these days is soy beans.I get a magazine that has to do with N.Carolina farming.I just read an article in it that says that.In 2016 folks here grew 1.6 million acres of soy beans.Much of that land used to grow tobacco.I don't know what is happening in other states.It's probably much the same though.I suppose some day we will be importing our pipe tobacco as we now do cigars.
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Post by JimInks on Sept 28, 2017 12:51:29 GMT -5
I've lived in North Carolina for the majority of my life, and I have to agree you are right.
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Post by papipeguy on Sept 28, 2017 14:35:02 GMT -5
What tobacco is grown in Pennsylvania is mostly done by the Amish around Lancaster. What I have observed is that farmers in our area still grow corn but many have turned fields to soy beans. I guess soy is a better cash crop, easier to grow and lower maintenance costs.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 15:35:32 GMT -5
When we have to start paying import prices like our worldwide pipe brethren, we'll be calling this time the good old days.
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Post by daveinlax on Sept 28, 2017 18:56:16 GMT -5
When we have to start paying import prices like our worldwide pipe brethren, we'll be calling this time the good old days. They're paying the taxes not for the tobacco. Tobacco and the market have been gone from SW Wisconsin for 20 years. |
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Post by billyklubb on Sept 28, 2017 19:23:35 GMT -5
mostly what's grown here is corn and soy beans. they alternate fields between the two. hear tells the beans put nutrients back into the ground that the corn loves.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 20:29:51 GMT -5
Yep i agree with Mr BillyKlubb
from here in Missouri all the way up to Minnesota is Corn on the left and Beans on the right
vice-versus if you are traveling south from MN to MO
missouri was once one of the large suppliers of burley
(white burley i think)
but now you'd be hard pressed to find any good quantities of tobacco grown around this state in one spot.
unless the law has recently changed i think we are still able to privately grow 1/10th of an acre of tobacco for personal use without having to get a permit
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Post by jitterbugdude on Sept 29, 2017 6:42:21 GMT -5
You can grow as much tobacco as you want. The 1/10th acre limit was in effect until the Tobacco Buyout program.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2017 10:37:47 GMT -5
Still quite a bit of tobacco being grown here in KY but nothing like the days under the price support system. There have actually been a few tobacco barns recently gone up outside the Louisville beltway which hasn't happened in many years. Perhaps the economic numbers are changing slightly back in favor of small tobacco; however, corn, soybeans and cattle are more common now on lands where tobacco was once a staple.
Considering our history including whiskey produced during Prohibition days and the amount of illegal green leaf currently harvested in the mountains, I seriously doubt Kentuckians will ever have to rely on sources outside the commonwealth for tobacco in my lifetime. We have more to fear here from blood tests for nicotine.
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Post by haebar on Oct 6, 2017 7:32:11 GMT -5
Here in Tennessee in tobacco-growing regions, schools would close during the tobacco harvest so that children could help with all the work involved in the harvest. It was a big part of the economy. You don't see that any more on that scale. But there are still quite a few here and in Kentucky who keep at it. A friend of mine's brother grows it in Kentucky, not just burley but many different varieties. Then there's The Tobacco Butcher, Larry Butcher in Kentucky who grows and sell part of it to home blenders.
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Post by jitterbugdude on Oct 6, 2017 7:53:49 GMT -5
aka BigBonner. He has some nice tobacco.
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Post by peterd-Buffalo Spirit on Oct 6, 2017 8:41:46 GMT -5
...I would agree that Tennessee and Kentucky still produce quite a bit of tobacco...of course, not as it was 25 years ago but still, more than many other states...From the late 1800's until around 1986 my Uncle and earlier generations of the family, in South Carolina, planted 10,000 acres of tobacco...ultimately much of that land is now in soy beans and peanuts.
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Post by Zach on Oct 6, 2017 10:48:28 GMT -5
Other than Amish growing small plots of tobacco in the country where I'm from, I don't know of any good tobacco plots in Indiana. It's all been corn and switching to corn/soybeans my whole life. Where I lived in Florida used to grow a few thousand acres of tobaccos of mostly burleys and Florida Sumatra but now it's literally down to a handful of acres. All that I saw while I lived there for a couple years was really just one plot of about 5-10 acres of a burley looking crop.
This country has always turned to what is the next cash crop. Where my grandma is from in southern Missouri used to be ALL cotton. As I was growing up, every year or two we'd take a trip down there for a family reunion my grandma would mention how the whole area was always cotton for her growing up but now it's all be turned to soy beans.
Overall though, there are far less cigarette smokers from a few decades ago, and pipe tobacco is somewhat making a come back, albeit a super niche market still. Even still, I truly hope the old tobacco belts of this country can maintain and continue to provide us our US staples of Virginias and Burleys for decades to come. Maybe it can make a turn around/come back.
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