that is very true and is the reason that we quit raising tobacco on our farm awhile back.
Back in the day all the kids from the area went out to cut and hang tobacco, they were even allowed to be out of school to do it, not considered truant. Every boy and a great deal of girls did it, the pay was bad but that was how every family earned their money in Kentucky, selling tobacco, not cutting/hanging. Our kids will come help you and your kids come help us. Once your kids were grown the neighborhood kids went around and earned money in the tobacco barn.
Eventually the kids all starting wanting more money and started working slower, now no american kids work tobacco at all around here, all immigrant workers. and its been that way for awhile. It would be impossible to have any chance at profit if you had to pay american kids to cut/hang tobacco. We decided we didn't want to get into the hiring of seasonal labor and stopped growing tobacco.
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