Transcript Tobacco - Barren County Schools

By: Hollie Wrather & Ella Settle
1. It starts with seeds.
Seeds are sprinkled onto
the surface of a sterile
seed starting mix and
watered in.
4. Again, about a
month behind
the optimum
stage.
2. Tiny seedlings
emerge in about 10
days.
5.Flower heads are bagged for
seed production. They are covered
before the flowers open in order to
maintain purity of the variety.
3. This is actually
about where the
plants should be
in early June.
6.Early September,
the plants are
beginning to ripen.
· Remove any weeds from the tobacco's planting area, because weeds will
absorb the nutrients the tobacco plants need. If using gardening tools, be
careful not to dig too deeply and damage the tobacco plant's roots.
· Supply the tobacco plants with one to two inches of water each week. Do
not water after a rainstorm. Tobacco plants can take 10 to 12 weeks to
reach full maturity after they are transplanted outside.
·Add more fertilizer to the plants if you see the leaves turning yellow. Use
the same fertilizer you used when planting in the seed trays; follow product
instructions for dilution and amount to use.
Cut, wilted, and ready to stick. That
is, using a tobacco spear on the end
of a "tobacco stick" that has been
driven into the ground, the stalks are
pierced and threaded onto the
stick. The sticks are then gathered
and moved to the tobacco barns.
Air curing in the barn. The
warm days and cool nights of
early fall are perfect conditions
for curing tobacco leaf.
For small scale, personal use growing,
tying twine onto the stalk works just
fine. Here is a stick ready for the barn.
Other areas out of inclement weather
and direct sunlight will work fine as well.
At one week, yellow
colors begin to change to
varying shades of brown.
At eight weeks the air
curing process is nearly
complete.
2007
Price per pound
$1.39
2008
$1.85
2009
2010
$1.75
$1.77
•Since 1997, tobacco prices have remained under $2
per pound.
•The crop is grown in typically
any where that has land that you
can grow other crops such as
wheat, cotton, soybeans, corn.
•The crop does need rain at least
3-5 inches every 2 weeks. Also
the crop needs a dry climate to
absorb the rain and grow.
The crop is used for……
• Cigarettes
•Dip
•Chewing tobacco
•Cigars
•Blunts
•Kreteks
And other smoke products
.
1492
Columbus
Discovers
Tobacco
1612
The settlers of
the first
American
colony in
Jamestown,
Virginia grew
tobacco as a
cash crop.
1900
Brosch
experiments with
tobacco
carcinogenisis on
guinea pigs
1995
President Clinton
announced FDA plans
to regulate tobacco,
especially sales and
advertising aimed at
minors.
www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/RL30947.pdf
http://www.agmrc.org/commodities__products/specialty_crops/tobacco_profile.cfm
http://www.clemson.edu/extension/rowcrops/tobacco/crop_economics/
http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/docs/tobacco/Unit1/2history_of.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/10339/ttl/