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| Dark Air Cured tobacco, also known as "one-sucker" locally, curing in a barn. |
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| A barn of Dark Fired tobacco being prepared to fire cure. |
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| Firing tobacco is equal parts know-how, tradition and luck. |
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| The fires are lit all over the barn and usually will burn for a week or so depending on the condition of the tobacco. |
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| The tobacco has a dark finish on it after we fire it 3 times. |
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| Dark tobacco is used to produce smokeless tobacco products such as Skoal and Copenhagen. |
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| The finished product being graded according to stalk position. |
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| The tobacco is bundled into "flakes" and placed on a hogs head barrel top for storage and transport. At this point there have been many man hours put into the crop and all the hard work and attention to detail is close to paying off! |
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| Each pile or "basket" is labeled according to the grade of tobacco. |
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| 20,000 lbs of Dark Fired Tobacco prepared for market in a semi van trailer. Photo credits to Brian McCord/Journal Communications www.TNagriculture.com |
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