This is one of the many reasons that premium longfiller cigars come at a premium price. If you take the amount of labour and skill that goes into a cigar then they are actually underpriced. After this harvesting is done they will be "colour cured" by slowly drying the tobacco in barns for 6-8 weeks, where they slowly turn from green to yellow and then brown. After that each leaf of tobacco will be graded by hand and sorted. It will then be sold to tobacco brokers, blenders or cigar manufacturers. The manufacturers will then wet("bring to case") and stack the leaves in "pilóns" which are massive carefully constructed heaps of tobacco weighing up to a few tons each. This bale is constantly monitored and when the internal temperature reaches 110°F the entire bale is broken down and the inside leaves are put on the outside and the bottoms leaves on top, so that it can evenly ferment and cure. This process is repeated sometimes up to 10 times until the tobacco no longer heat up on its own, this building and rebuilding of the piles can last for a few months, during which time the tobacco looses ammonia etc and starts to slowly develop the taste and aroma of premium tobacco. Depending on the qaulity and the blend, the tobacco will then be graded again and aged anything from 6months to 1-3 years(sometimes 5 or more in certain blends) before it is handed to a roller who then carefully and by hand constructs each cigar according to the recipe of the cigar blender and rolls each cigar completely by hand with basic tools and presses that haven't changed in a few hundred years. An experienced roller can roll between 100 and 150 cigars per day depending on the size and shape of the cigar so its also a slow process. From seed to smoke the average cigar went through 300+ sets of hands. So next time you see a cigar. Tip your hat to the age old craft, workmanship, knowledge and hard labour that went into making it. One of the reasons I enjoy smoking cigars is because everytime I light a cigar I think of the skill, labour ans knowledge that went into creating such a simple product, yet mindblowingly complex and soffisticated at the same time.

Interesting crop. I don't smoke, but if I did I wouldn't complain about the cost of a cigar after seeing how labor intensive tobacco is.

Great video! Looking forward to next one!

Thanks for making this video. It was interesting.

Nice video man

Hard work!

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A very controversial crop to grow. Thanks for time to video. Have a good day

Thanks for sharing the video. It is nice the Amish family let's you make these videos. What is he wearing on his head? Looks like a lantern kinda thing.

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Wait.. is Amish dude wearing a pair of Crocs? 2:16 Nice, lol.

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Triggered ex-blunt smoker here.🌳🔥💨

Are the Amish growing weed. That's a better cash crop, and its legal

I mean the whole video is a guy sticking tobacco plant on sticks. Thumbs down. Thought I would learn something.