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GALLERY: Tobacco harvest from start to finish

Photos by Hannah Reel, Published: November 8, 2012 10:41AM

Santiago Yanes puts stalks of tobacco onto a pole after cutting it in September. After the tobacco is cut, it’s left in the field for two or three days before it is picked up and hung in a barn. Workers make their way down a field cutting tobacco in Monterey in September. The field, owned by Roger Perkins, is part of the 42 total acres of land that he uses to raise tobacco. Willis Bickers uses a hatchet to cut tobacco in September. A tobacco leaf is seen in detail. Workers hang two levels of tobacco to dry in one of Perkins’ barns in September. The tobacco hangs in the barn to dry for two or three weeks before it is brought down and stripped. Wilbert Perkins, 81, father of Roger Perkins, pulls a trailer using a tractor while helping to hang tobacco in one of Roger’s barns in Monterey. Roger jokingly says his father will never fully retire from tobacco work. Travis Phillips hands a stick of tobacco up to his crewmember to be hung on the second level while working in one of Roger Perkins’ barns in Monterey in September. The tobacco hangs in the barn to dry for two or three weeks before it is stripped. Tobacco hangs to dry in one of Roger Perkins’ barns in Monterey in September. Roger Perkins helps unload a trailer of tobacco while hanging it in one of his barns in Monterey in September. Roger Perkins describes the three different grades of tobacco leaves on one stalk. As the leaves are stripped they are separated and baled into one of the three grades. Stanley Johnson, Marvin Edwards and Melvin Skelton strip tobacco leaves from the stalks in Roger Perkins’ barn in Franklin County off U.S. 127 North. Stanley Johnson and Marvin Edwards separate leaves of tobacco into different piles according to the grade while stripping the leaves from the stalks in Roger Perkins' barn in Franklin County off U.S. 127 North. After the leaves are stripped, they are then baled into 600 to 700-pound square bales and taken to a receiving station in Carleton where they are distributed to Philip Morris USA Inc. Melvin Skelton laughs with his crewmembers while stripping tobacco leaves from the stalks in Roger Perkins' barn. Christopher Keith compacts the tobacco into a baler while working in Roger Perkins' barn.

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