Posted by JWalker on November 07, 2014 at 17:53:07 from (64.138.246.90):
In Reply to: Re: Fire ant again posted by IH2444 on November 07, 2014 at 13:49:06:
The deregulation of flue cured tobacco has for the most part proceeded as follows. The USDA did away with the "quota" system. This dictated how much tobacco you could grow. Both in pounds and acreage. If you did not own or rent the quota you could not plant or sell the tobacco.
The new system is very similar and totally different in many ways. The growers now "contract with the tobacco companies". They contract for so many pounds with a price range. They prefer to contract with growers producing 50 plus acres per year. Many growers will produce 200 plus. While this may seem like small acreage to grain farmers was not under the old system or even the new system.
Tobacco is a management intensive crop. It takes multiple trips across the field to produce a crop. (One to bed land, one to shape beds, one to transplant, two to three to cultivate, several trips to spray and usually 3 to 4 to harvest.). Once the crop is gathered it is put into curing barns. Most of the above is done mechanically with some physical labor packing the gathering boxes and putting the boxes into the barn. Once cured it is once again manually placed into a baler and baled into 800 pound bales. These are then transported to the contracted location.
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