Interesting new Perique tobacco article

3 years ago, I had the opportunity to witness the perique growing and harvesting in St. James Parish as well as the processes involved at the L.  A. Poche processing facility.  It is a very labor intensive growing , harvesting, and processing effort.  From the comments I heard about efforts trying to shorten the processes involved in order to increase production and/or reduce labor costs has only resulted in failure to produce quality product. Since much of the labor involved is only needed on a seasonal basis that could become the achilles heel someday for the future of perique tobacco.