Phil we raise all burley here. We cut it and place on a 4 and 1/2 foot sticks. 6 stalks to the stick. then hang on rails spaced 4 feet apart and spread it out on the stick to air cure. Mostly used for cigarettes. Lots of folks here have quit as well, but some of us old hard heads are still at it. Still lots of around, just fewer people are raising more of it now. It is so labor intensive that it cost lots of money to raise it. With the buyout came a 50 cent per pound decrease in price. The stuff I buy keeps going up and the stuff I sell is going down. This can not last this way. I suspect that before to long it will all be raised in other countries and inported to the US. The people here are not happy until they force everything they don't agree with out. It only hurts the farmers. There is so much money involved with it that it is going to remain legal, American farmers will be left out. The big tobacco companies will take Bankruptcy here and move all operations out of the country and send their products right back in here. They own most the food conpanies now, and have been busy the last few years seperating their holdings. Just look on anything made by Kraft. Kraft is owned by the RJ Reynolds tobacco company. It use to say RJR Nabisco on all their products. Now the RJR has been taken off of everything they make and companies moved to other holding companies to protect them from the liability of tobacco suits. It is only a matter of time.
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