Innovation leads to tobacco curing savings

(Southeast Farm Press) After the tobacco buyout of 2004, when growers could plant any tobacco type they wanted, flue-cured growers Hester Vernon and his son William decided to grow some burley on their farm in Milton, N.C., near Danville, Va.
But they had a big decision to make: What kind of structure would be best for curing the air-cured type under the Vernons' conditions?
The economic climate of the time meant that a big upfront cost was not a good idea. Continued