Lee Farms

Photos and text by Debbie Roos, Agricultural Extension Agent.

Tobacco-planting day:
the truck brings in fertilizer and tobacco transplants.

Flats of tobacco seedlings,
grown using flotation beds in greenhouses.

Tobacco transplants, roots and shoots.

The crew loads the tractor with fertilizer and flats of plants.

Jimmy drives the tractor and two workers set tobacco plants.

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Don't try this at home! This experienced crew is incredibly fast.

Some of the crew follows behind with
more plants to fill in any missed gaps.

The workers who follow behind planting by hand sometimes leave behind
a sign of their handiwork in the moist soil (can you see the hand print?).

Flowering tobacco crop.

A worker tops tobacco plants, removing the flowers
so that the plant puts its energy into leaf production.

Jimmy brings in a load of freshly harvested tobacco leaf.

Tobacco waits to be cured.

Jimmy prepares tobacco for curing (note curing barns in background).

Flue-cured tobacco.

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This page last updated January 16, 2006.

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