Double curing can boost tobacco profits

(Southeast Farm Press) If you need extra capacity to handle your stalk-cut tobacco, the first impulse might be to build a new barn. But over the last 10 years, many dark and burley growers have chosen instead to cure two crops a year in some or all of their curing barns.
“We turned to ‘double’ curing both because there was a lack of structures and also because we were trying to maximize profits,” says Bill Corbin of Springfield Tenn., who grows fire-cured, dark air-cured and burley. Continued

Photo: Flue cure tobacco barn on Irwinville Farms, Georgia, 1936 (Carl Mydans/FSA/LoC).