Solar tobacco barn saves time, money

(Southeast Farm Press) Using solar power to add more precision to the tobacco curing process has proven to be a time and money saver in tests at Virginia Tech University and at Clemson University’s PeeDee Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Florence, SC.
Modern tobacco production is often time and labor intensive. Tobacco curing can make or break both quality and profit in a tobacco crop.
Curing takes about 20 percent of variable cost and 15 percent of the total cost of tobacco production. Continued