[AT] OT Swedish tobacco farming

[Mattias Kessén]

They had removed flower stalks so i assumed the ones they harvested were
new. The clip said nothing about drying outdoors or indoors or both.

Med vänlig hälsning

Mattias Kessén


Sent from my not so smart phone.

Den 29 sep. 2017 20:11 skrev "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>:

> 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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