Organic tobacco?

rrlund · Nov 20, 2013

I just heard of it. Maybe somebody can tell me what the heck that's all about?

Seems to me like it's about the equivalent of gluten free non GMO crack.

RalphWD45 · Nov 20, 2013

Good stuff! It makes fine ceegars!

Greg K · Nov 20, 2013

For the smokers that are concerned about healthy smoking lol.

Eldon (WA) · Nov 20, 2013

(quoted from post at 17:30:51 11/20/13) I just heard of it. Maybe somebody can tell me what the heck that's all about?

Seems to me like it's about the equivalent of gluten free non GMO crack.

I find it funny how many potheads are into organic farming.....

Royse · Nov 20, 2013

Maybe that's what it was before the tobacco companies added
all the chemical additives to increase the addictive effects?

ben brown · Nov 20, 2013

(quoted from post at 17:30:51 11/20/13) I just heard of it. Maybe somebody can tell me what the heck that's all about?

Seems to me like it's about the equivalent of gluten free non GMO crack.

well i have a customer that is raising organic tobacco seem there is a market for it better price not a many pound per acre but also a lot less input no commercial fertilizer or chemicals. my take is that way you can say you died of organic cancer
. when i first mover to ky in 1976 you wouldn't have believed what was put on tobacco over the years there been a lot change and also now the FDA reg. tobacco it just like everything markets change you better start or you be left behind, one thing i like about it it take more equipment so that good for my business.

Matt in TN · Nov 20, 2013

...well i have a customer that is raising organic tobacco seem there is a market for it better price not a many pound per acre but also a lot less input

I assure you there is more "input" to tobacco if you don't let chemicals do the work. You'd have to chop every week rain or shine, and sucker every week during the last half of the crop.

Eldon (WA) · Nov 20, 2013

So does it take longer for organic tobacco to kill you??

ben brown · Nov 20, 2013

matt i wasn't talking labor i talking about chemical. and they didn't have to do a lot hoeing i think it going to work for this person and he also believe it work.

Old weldor · Nov 20, 2013

Organic lung cancer!

Ted in NE-OH · Nov 20, 2013

I guess you can die healthy.

Larry NEIL · Nov 20, 2013

Sure does...I got one stickin iut of my mouth right now!

Billy NY · Nov 20, 2013

The fertilizer connection to Polonium 210 is interesting, have a scientist friend elaborate on that recently.

Brad Buchanan · Nov 20, 2013

They add bugs for you! Just like the lettuce at the farmers market.

Brad

504 · Nov 20, 2013

Just a little FYI, chewing tobacco is grown in WI. You learn the strangest things at a Red Power Round Up.

RalphWD45 · Nov 20, 2013

Is that Sweet Aromatic, Or the Honey Berry? I kind of like the Honey berry for desert.

Grey · Nov 20, 2013

we are organic flue cured tobacco farmers. It is grown pretty much like conventional tobacco. The big difference is suckers and weeds. We spend a lot of time hoeing and plowing in the spring to control weeds. We use bat guano to fertilize the plants in the greenhouse, organic chicken litter, and commercially available organic fertilizers. We are allowed to spray an alcohol based organic chemical to help control suckers but it has to be sprayed every few days. It is a very labor intensive crop that requires very close management. However, with good weather conditions, we can easily produce a quality crop in excess of 2500 pounds per acre. The payoff in terms of the organic premium price is well worth the extra time and inputs.

rockyridgefarm · Nov 21, 2013

There are some people who believe that the tobacco isn't the bad stuff, it's the chemicals used in growing tobacco and the chemicals used in processing the tobacco that are bad.

They're wrong. But why not sell them what they want to buy? If they're willing to pay a premium, go for it. Give the customer what he wants at a price he's willing to pay. That's capitalism.

Traditional Farmer · Nov 21, 2013

And how many old geezers that abuse alcohol that raise cane about someone smoking pot.BTW I think both are bad for one health and don't do either.And tobacco is the nastiest of them all especially the slobbering chewers.

dr sportster · Nov 21, 2013

I went in the store the other day and there was a nice looking girl with a table set up she asked if I used tobbaco products . I didn't get a free T-shirt or beer can holder cause I said no. They were" all natural" Seneca Cigs made by Native Americans in upstate NY. I told her she should go set up down at the schoolyard. There was a theory once that tobacco contained some radiation and hence the lung cancer. If radiation is in the leaves it can be as chemical free as ever and still kill you. People get lung cancer in yarn mills. Once you kill the silia in your lungs dirt gets in and causes the cancer anyway. If you do live to be real old then the death is emphysema anyway.

Dr. Walt · Nov 21, 2013

True "organic" Tobacco is WILD Tobacco also known as "Indian Tobacco".

Dr. Walt · Nov 21, 2013

No Eldon, you just die healthy. But then again dead
is dead so what's the point.

Doc

Dr. Walt · Nov 21, 2013

Traditional Farmer:

Back when I worked in the Mines a group of us car-pooled together, the driver chewed tobacco. One day he had two styro-cups on the center console, one coffee & the other was spittle. He grabbed what he thought was coffee and took a big gulp . . . it was the spittle cup. My stomach was doing flip-flops watching him & it was all I could do to keep from gagging.

Texasmark1 · Nov 21, 2013

Some butt$ for sale around here made by Okie indians. Sell for about $1 a pack less than regular corporate america. Neighbor stuffs em and leaves his butts all over my shop.

Mark

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