Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Efficient Curing Method Helping Tobacco Farmers


(bizlex.com) ... "The method of curing tobacco in field structures is not new. It's something that has been done for 20 years, now," said Wilhoit. "It is usually done on various variations of some sort of wood structure. Sometimes they were wire structures to hang the sticks on. What the pallet rack concept does is use these snap together steel pallet rack structures that are standard in industry and retail warehousing." Continued

Image: Hanging burley tobacco in the barn to dry and cure, on Russell Spear's farm near Lexington, Kentucky, 1940. (Marion Post Wolcott/FSA/Library of Congress).

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