Kentucky Burley, Ready For Harvest

[Buzz Saw]

These pictures were taken today on the farm I grew up on, where my mother still lives. She is 86 years old, has been around tobacco her whole life, and said this is the finest crop she has ever seen. I have to agree with her, who can disagree with Mom, in my 60 years I haven't seen any finer. This will be cut in probably three or four days and hung in the barns to cure. This is air
cured Kentucky burley.
cured

 

[dog_park_piper]

Hot damn, I think my tobacco belly is growling.

 

[didimauw]

This made me smile! Thanks!

 

[PipeIT]

Your mom’s a tobacco farmer? That tobacco sure looks nice…

Hey I want samples when ready please! LOL

My grandfather on my mother’s side was a tobacco farmer in Tennessee, use to grow tobacco for Philip Morris, we always visited growing up.

 

[dottlejockey]

Great looking crop!

 

[Peter Turbo]

What a sight!

 

[mortonbriar]

drool...

 

[VDL_Piper]

Oh my word that is a sight to behold

 

[Buzz Saw]

Your mom’s a tobacco farmer? That tobacco sure looks nice…

Hey I want samples when ready please! LOL

My grandfather on my mother’s side was a tobacco farmer in Tennessee, use to grow tobacco for Philip Morris, we always visited growing up.

My mother, father, both sets of grandparents, and at least one set of great grandparents were all tobacco farmers. Mother, at 86 years of age, still lives on the "home place" where I grew up. This farm was originally purchased by my paternal grandparents in the 1950's, and sold to my parents in the 1970's. Dad, now deceased, and his father, ran a Holstein dairy and raised tobacco here since the 1950's. The farm is currently leased to another local farm family whose crop you see here. The dairy cattle are long gone. Mother still lives in her house by herself, and like most farm women who survived all this, is with all due respect, "as tough as Tarzan's feet".

 

[Briar Lee]

A question

The vast majority of tobacco grown today is contracted before planting.

But approximately, what’s the going rate for burley at auction?

 

[Briarcutter]

Ill take 5lbs please.

 

[spike]

That looks beautiful and God bless your mother, but I cannot buy any because burley doesn’t sit well with me. The other guys here will fill in for me.

 

[Bbailey324]

Looks like a good crop!

 

[Choatecav]

Fine looking spread, indeed. No hail damage whatsoever.

 

[KruegerFlap]

That is one fine looking crop of tobacco indeed!

 

[abecox]

I can't wait to put that in my pipe and smoke it.

 

[Buzz Saw]

A question

The vast majority of tobacco grown today is contracted before planting.

But approximately, what’s the going rate for burley at auction?

``Lee,
To my knowledge it is now all contracted before planting. When I was on the farm it was sold at auction houses, but all the auction warehouses have long since closed. I haven't heard of a tobacco auction for probably 30 years.

 

[DesertDan]

Beautiful!
Can't wait to set some of it on fire!

 

[kcghost]

Your mother did raise quite a crop of burley!!

 

[Sigmund]

@Buzz Saw Man does that look familiar. I grew up in KY just across the river from Evansville.