Post by James T. Kirk on Oct 2, 2021 15:27:13 GMT -6
Since there's no agriculture board on this forum I guess I'll put this in General Health, since in a roundabout way our health is one of the reasons for what I haven't seen in years. And that's tobacco fields. Growing up in Kentucky, over the years it was a common site to see many farmers growing tobacco anywhere you went. In the nearly 15 years I've been going to our lake place in the country, I don't recall seeing any tobacco. This morning on my way home I decided to take the "scenic" route through a different county, mainly because I wasn't in a hurry and I wanted to look for a place my dad took me fishing when I was in my early teens many years ago.
I'm no authority on tobacco but my understanding is that farmers used to be limited in the amount they could grow. I think they could sell their "rights" to others. I guess basically Farmer John could allow Farmer Bob to use his quota for a price and Bob could grow it on his own land.
Anyway, I am guessing there are very few farmers growing it today, so the sight of small tobacco fields on every farm in Kentucky has disappeared. But this morning while driving up US 60 in central Breckinridge County I saw the biggest field of Burley tobacco I've seen in my life. I assume this guy bought the rights from every other farmer in the county because there was tobacco as far as the eye can see.
Louisville used to be the home to several cigarette and cigar factories back in the old days. Brown and Williamson, Phillip Morris, RJ Reynolds, P. Lorillard and American Tobacco to name a few. I don't think there are any in Kentucky today and probably very few in the US. It's something that I really hadn't given much thought to until this morning when I drove by those acres and acres of tobacco. I should probably take the road less traveled more often.
I'm no authority on tobacco but my understanding is that farmers used to be limited in the amount they could grow. I think they could sell their "rights" to others. I guess basically Farmer John could allow Farmer Bob to use his quota for a price and Bob could grow it on his own land.
Anyway, I am guessing there are very few farmers growing it today, so the sight of small tobacco fields on every farm in Kentucky has disappeared. But this morning while driving up US 60 in central Breckinridge County I saw the biggest field of Burley tobacco I've seen in my life. I assume this guy bought the rights from every other farmer in the county because there was tobacco as far as the eye can see.
Louisville used to be the home to several cigarette and cigar factories back in the old days. Brown and Williamson, Phillip Morris, RJ Reynolds, P. Lorillard and American Tobacco to name a few. I don't think there are any in Kentucky today and probably very few in the US. It's something that I really hadn't given much thought to until this morning when I drove by those acres and acres of tobacco. I should probably take the road less traveled more often.