[AT] OT Swedish tobacco farming

[charlie hill]

Mattias,  I didn't need the translation.  I feel like I have a PhD in
tobacco.  LOL.  What your video clip shows is similar to the way
"Burley" tobacco is handled.  Actually it's kind of a hybrid between
burley which is air dried on the stalk and flue cured which used to
be "tied" bundles of leaves.  Now days here it's all mechanical
and highly automated.  I looked for some youtube videos of recent
harvest of flue cured tobacco but didn't find anything I thought
would adequately tell the story.

In my days on the tobacco farm we pulled (picked or cropped) the leaves
(different terminology for the same method depending on what area you lived 
in)
two or three leaves at the time starting at the bottom of the stalk and 
working up.
most plants had somewhere between 18 and 21 leaves or so and the process 
took
about 6 weeks. The plants were as much as 6' tall and the leaves vastly 
larger than
anything in the video you shared.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mattias Kessén
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 1:50 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: [AT] OT Swedish tobacco farming

Hi,
I thought I should share this clip since some of you are so interested in
tobacco farming. The language might be a bit challenging for some of you.

http://www.atl.nu/lantbruk/har-skordas-svensk-tobak/
Mattias
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