Why Maryland Farms Stopped Growing Tobacco

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Tobacco used to be one of the most popular cash crops in Maryland, but it has mostly disappeared today. Maryland Farm & Harvest visits two different farmers to find out why.
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Episode 908

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@Robbie7441 Жыл бұрын

Well done that man , sticking with tradition, i hope all goes well with his tobacco growing.

@ericbivins8014 Жыл бұрын

Good for you for not taking the buyout. I miss seeing all the tobacco that used to be grown here in Kentucky when I was a kid. Only a few farmers still do it around here as well.

@terrytico4009 Жыл бұрын

It's good to see that this farmer in the video still grows tobacco. I liked his explanation regarding life sentences. He has a good outlook and I wish him success.

@Thepathof77 Жыл бұрын

My great grandfather was one of the biggest and most sought after tobacco farmers in Calvert county. The farm sat along Broomes island rd. It was enormous and just beautiful. My grandparents sold the remaining land a few years ago and now it’s being developed. Really sad to see. That area was magnificent to spend my summers in while growing up. Lots of history in those woods too.

@mikethomas5541 Жыл бұрын

I lived in Calvert county Maryland , glen Bernie , Bowie , Waldorf , born in prince georges county

@seeharvester 29 күн бұрын

Never sell your land.

@bendebeer8607 2 жыл бұрын

Hat off for this gentleman! And a loooooot of respect!!!!!!

@robf8023 Жыл бұрын

Extremely grateful for a real man of principle! Tobacco is not the problem, cigarettes are the problem and it is continually being proven in studies.

@matthewyabsley Жыл бұрын

You really need to join us in 2022. Smoking anything is harmful to the lungs. Just because 1 method of smoking is less harmful than another, doesn't make any kind of smoking ok. It is an idiotic thing to say.

@robf8023 Жыл бұрын

@@matthewyabsley modern studies do not agree with you.

@bradleybrown8399 Жыл бұрын

what do you they put in cigarettes, sawdust? wheat flour? pocket lint? 🙄

@othala7540 Жыл бұрын

Indeed people dont understand what they put in tabacco. Crying about harmfull to your lungs but dont realise the parfume and deodorants are more harmfull for the lungs and body. ANd other spraying cleaners

@lyzeofkiel896 Жыл бұрын

@@matthewyabsley pipes and cigars aren't inhaled. Obviously there is still a risk to the throat, mouth and nasal passages but not to the lungs.

@flyslinger2 Жыл бұрын

Moved here in 1983. Driving the back roads of southern Maryland looking for ponds to fish there would be acres and acres of tobacco. The sweet smell when it was hanging in the barns curing is like none other. Lawyers saw a cash cow in the form of targeting big tobacco and made a killing out of it. The farmer took it on the chin.

@lesliewilkerson7296 9 күн бұрын

I grew up on a tobacco farm in Calvert County and Prince George’s County Md now live in California and I miss the farm a lot

@reneehayden6169 Жыл бұрын

Great seeing the Russells on here, representing St. Mary's co. I can remember the "t'baca" fields, barns, and smells so well. So glad I can.

@othala7540 Жыл бұрын

respect to the man dont take the buyt out

@chrisnorris173 Жыл бұрын

I was given some tobacco seeds, started, transplanted, and now they are 6 tall. I did as a joke, but now they are big , full and beautiful, lol. I have about 15-20 plants almost ready to begin harvesting, now what! I don't smoke or anything...great video!

@ShootingUtah Жыл бұрын

Make some home made chew out of it and sell it to friends maybe, that's about the easiest thing. If you can get them to color cure is another thing. Some varieties need to be flu cured and it's way harder to do.

@YaketyYakDontTalkBack Жыл бұрын

Can make a alcohol based tobacco extract for cologne/perfume. Also a natural pesticide so an extract can be used like deet or on other plants.

@tofan2622 2 жыл бұрын

"But I'm fine to be a sellout because I have no feeling of community." Great on the guy who declined the buyout, the government has no business to get involved.

@ClaytonBigsby01 Жыл бұрын

But the U.S. Government has to make sure other countries can utilize all that slave labor. Guys the children need to be in the fields . It’s not like they have schools to attend .

@bradleybrown8399 Жыл бұрын

"community" 🙄 phuck that. the guy says murder and marriage is a life sentence. Well, tobacco is a death sentence for millions every year.

@helkas3316 Жыл бұрын

@@bradleybrown8399 Millions of people don't die of tobacco related cancer each year. A million people don't die of that each year. Of the people who die of lung cancer supposedly associated with tobacco, it's not known what other factors were involved. I smoked for 30 years. My lungs were clear before I quit. My lungs remained clear afterwards. I was physically active and was never sedentary. Someone who smokes alot, and btw, alot means 2 or more packs a day, NOT A SINGLE PACK a day. Those people combined with poor nutrition and inactivity are far more likely to die of lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease. My stepfather smoked right up till he died at 85 years old. He didn't die of cancer or heart disease. He died of brain bleed which had nothing to do with smoking. He smoked ALOT. He was very physically active and had great nutritional habits. I'd love to learn how to grow my own tobacco.

@bradleybrown8399 Жыл бұрын

@@helkas3316 From the Centers for Disease Control : Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death. Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7 million deaths per year.2 If the pattern of smoking all over the globe doesn’t change, more than 8 million people a year will die from diseases related to tobacco use by 2030.3 Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.1 On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.4

@seeharvester 29 күн бұрын

@@ClaytonBigsby01 White flower! Clayton Bigsby has spoken!

@Ludwig_Cox 4 ай бұрын

Hell yeah im growing my own this year!! Just planted my seeds

@donarthiazi2443 3 күн бұрын

In March? What kind of tobacco do you grow? We gassed the beds in December, later we mixed the almost microscopic seeds with fertilizer and broadcasted it into the now clean beds. Once the plants came up we transplanted it to our fields. But not in March. You probably grow Burley tobacco don't you?

@gailsack2635 Жыл бұрын

I’m a first generation cigar smoker. A brother of the leaf!

@Johndoe-qk6fi 2 жыл бұрын

I was a harvester in kentucky they arent lying about the long hot days so many blisters on my back then you had to get up before the sun the next day so sore you cant even wear a shirt to do it all again after a while it dont bug you tho i beleive we put 6 stalks on a stick and got paid 10 cents a stick.. getting way up in that barn is terrifying after your half dead from the sun all day all shaky haha

@tofan2622 2 жыл бұрын

Big dog. Thats not the way it should work, thats called SLAVERY my friend.

@Johndoe-qk6fi 2 жыл бұрын

They paid me for an honest days work. I had no problem with it. Getting money isnt always easy i had to survive they gave me an opportunity i could have said no ...so no its not slavery i had a choice ...kinda

@donarthiazi2443 3 күн бұрын

I'm really curious about those blisters on your back? 🤔🤔

@robertblanks9602 Жыл бұрын

this pipe smoker appreciates any/all growers

@glennpupino4890 9 ай бұрын

I recently became a pipe smoker. Switched from cigarettes. Amazing how much better a pipe is!

@garyhammond2213 10 ай бұрын

What a shame. I have grown tobacco in Alaska but not for a year or so. Next year I'll be planting some again. Screw the government.

@joeyschmidt7546 4 ай бұрын

they sold out for short term money gains so the big guy could have monopoly on the market. they are pushing narrative that the farmers did the right thing but actually they have been tricked cause long term they could be making big money growing tobacco with how high prices are now. so the government and big companies now have total domination of the market

@seeharvester 29 күн бұрын

Right on! Stick it to the Man!

@anelam71 2 жыл бұрын

So interesting. I was given some tobacco seeds and was going to plant a few. Great segment.

@dual4025 11 ай бұрын

How’d the plants turn out?

@IVORY123100 Жыл бұрын

Used to help as a kid in the 70's . Got paid very little busting ass all day . St Mary's County Md .. Good memories.

@williamclements2496 Жыл бұрын

Yes it was a hot dirty job , but it helped me to buy new school clothes. I always had respect for farmers.

@bobwallace6812 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Really was educational to me. Thank you.

@user-ft4jq4sb5b 8 ай бұрын

I'm a Finger Lakes New Yorker. I bet most people think the state that grew the most tobacco, are states like Maryland, Virginia, Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, & other southern states. But did you know that the #1 tobacco growing state at the height of tobacco production, was Connecticut, yup, that's right, more than any other state!

@pappyhiping4891 Жыл бұрын

Great, informative video, thank you.

@kdknitro Жыл бұрын

My grandfather and family grew tabbaco in southern also. Most of the barns are still standing on the farm that doesn't farm anything anymore. It us hard work for what you get paid from what I'm told. Also the tabbaco auction house still stands in hughesville and us now a place called the barging barn with random shops. Just a little more memories from the day of tabbaco.

@zaphodbeetlepox6627 7 ай бұрын

Loved the smell of tobacco dried in the barn and stripping in the winter, best job I had in high school.

@Rokonroller Жыл бұрын

Nice video, thanks 🙏🏻

@StrawberryAJ 2 жыл бұрын

Buyout was started way before year 2000

@larrymcever4601 7 ай бұрын

I was raised on a farm in Georgia growing flue cured Tobacco. I remember 6 sales warehouses in Moultrie where the Tobacco was sold at auction. We both grew the "weed" and we had trucks for hire to haul the product to market. for other farmers. All gone now. The warehouses are closed and there are very few producers to be found, and there was no buyout. Maryland got in too big of a hurry. It would have ended there just like it did in Georgia. Honestly, I do not regret it. Hard nasty hot backbreaking work that I will not miss.

@beekeeper8474 Жыл бұрын

Grow my own make pipe tobacco for a few friends.

@davidrussell4104 Жыл бұрын

I never worked with air cured tobacco like that. We had flue cured in eastern NC. Harvested a few leaves each week instead of whole stalk. Our mountain areas in western NC grew air cured.

@ClaytonBigsby01 Жыл бұрын

They are picking the bottom leaves here in South Georgia right now

@kdknitro Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's just how it's done here in somd. I've heard the same thing from talking to guys from work training about the heated curing barns they have now.

@tochamp5441 2 жыл бұрын

The Amish still grow it in St Mary’s county.

@reddirtfarm7704 2 жыл бұрын

Just all across MD and PA...

@Johndoe-qk6fi 2 жыл бұрын

I still grow it in my basement lol

@mikethomas5541 Жыл бұрын

Grandfather grew it when we lived in davidsonville , he built his on planters pulled behind the old alice chalmers , Massey Ferguson tractors we had then . Awesome memory’s !

@brianheintz9912 Жыл бұрын

Mention of Massey Ferguson brought back good memories I rode on my pawpaw's combine with him as they cut rice hear in Louisiana

@mikethomas5541 Жыл бұрын

@@brianheintz9912 oh ok , I’m in Baton Rouge

@brianheintz9912 Жыл бұрын

I'm around reeves, it's just west of kinder

@ashleansmith212 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this information. :)

@igorhendges5569 Жыл бұрын

Good to se this man growing tobacco!

@Sidneybeach875 4 ай бұрын

Good ol Brian, hope he has fun with those lil hay "bales"

@YaketyYakDontTalkBack Жыл бұрын

Need to grow my own.

@woopeedyscoop1858 Жыл бұрын

My respect to Mike

@Ranchhand323 2 жыл бұрын

I remember those days ...

@Willythekid-sj8tw Жыл бұрын

I grew up on a tobacco farm in Port Tobacco, MD. Have you ever heard of Butch Tipton?

@chokolatosh7099 Жыл бұрын

Wow tobacco is good boss

@johndemok4660 9 ай бұрын

I am interested on farming tobacco and the final process .How will I have information on this pricess

@iconofsin1043 Ай бұрын

Literally every tobacco video: Acoustic guitar in the background

@bradleyparker234 Жыл бұрын

I been seeing his tobacco all my life going up Dunkirk

@andrewchristopherharry4797 Жыл бұрын

Lovely,,,it's far safer then government and private business spraying and adding for profit sake....

@donmiles5080 7 ай бұрын

I think they should keep growing it in Maryland and anywhere they have grown it in the past. People are still going to use tobacco and now instead they buy it from Africa and South America. We should be growing it here where we have control over the pesticides that are used and it can provide income for local farmers.

@sammoore3465 Жыл бұрын

My wife and myself raised tobacco .

@user-hy8ih9nr6n 10 ай бұрын

Can I buy the tobacco leaves in the video? fcv right?

@kilbonrobert Жыл бұрын

BIG Tobacco!

@paulkica4129 11 ай бұрын

Don't you'uns use Prime+ or MH30 to yellow out your tobacco?

@joehardesty20 Жыл бұрын

Is it possible to find out who the two men were at 1:20

@ismailkhanikamz6841 Жыл бұрын

Quality tobacco are produced every year in pakistan as well

@glennpupino4890 9 ай бұрын

What types/kinds are grown there?

@e.joseph273 Ай бұрын

I want some of Mike's tobacco.

@adriancarty612 Жыл бұрын

We don't cut tobacco like that in Kentucky

@bigbonner3531 Жыл бұрын

I don't know how Maryland buyout was but I would say it was the same as Kentucky's buyout. You either took the money or you didn't take the buyout money. That agreement would let tobacco growers grow all the tobacco they wanted to but the grower had to find a buyer. If you could not sell your crop then you was stuck with a crop of tobacco. I was a burley farmer and grew 65 acres most years. When the buyout came through tobacco companies still bought our tobacco at a cheaper per pound price. Then after a few years they quit signing tobacco contracts with the farmers in my area. I lost my tobacco contracts and lost tobacco income. Now I may have to sell my land because I cannot make enough money from my farms to live on and make my farm payments. I loved tobacco farming but now I wish I had picked a different career. Growing tobacco is hard work and I am now too old and broke down to get a job. Health problems from working in my tobacco crops.

@bigbonner3531 Жыл бұрын

I forgot to add that just because you didn't take the buyout money didn't mean that was the only way you could keep growing . Farmers who took the buyout could still grow as much tobacco as they wanted to. No matter if you took the buyout money or not you still had to find a place to sell your crop. Finding a company to sell your crop to became hard to find.

@szpupolip Жыл бұрын

Ez szomorú.

@mth101261 18 күн бұрын

😢

@nicathuseynov4513 7 ай бұрын

Ты можете отправить мне тобока семена

@scubadoobiedoo2190 Жыл бұрын

This old farmer seems like a nice guy. They mention his main business is cattle now. His farm probably would be better off if he did take that deal. Tho he'd have to find another passion crop.