Re: Haying in Connecticut

Posted by Matt from CT on July 09, 2006 at 06:47:47 from (24.177.7.45):

In Reply to: Re: Haying in Connecticut posted by Bill(Wis) on July 09, 2006 at 05:42:26:

Yep, but not in my area.

They're all in the Connecticut River Valley, about an hour's drive (50 miles) west of me.

It's "Connecticut Shade Tobacco" almost exclusively. If you buy a premium (hand wrapped) cigar, you have a 50/50 shot of it being wrapped in Connecticut Shade.

There are frames over the rows that are used to create a cheesecloth "tent" over the plants once their established. It keeps the direct sun off of them (the "shade"), and kind of acts like a greenhouse to boost temperature and humidity.

I have seen a few farms, usually tucked away on a backroad, that grow tobacco simply in a field...I don't know if it's broadleaf, or I suspect it's seed tobacco for the shade farmers.

Looking up that stats, there's only about 2,000 acres of it grown. But it brings in around $40 million a year...$20,000/acre ain't bad, eh?

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