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Drove across Highway 41 in N.C. (pics)

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Kerry50

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Been in New Bern N.C. all this week, avoiding the flooding that has been going on back in central MO. Girl friends daughter lives here. Her husband is in the Marines and was shipped out to Afghanistan a couple of months ago. Yesterday, the girls went shopping and I took a drive through the country. Got on highway 41 at I-70 and drove about 80 miles west.


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Farmers were starting to cut tobacco.

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F-12?

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This ones for sale, $12,000

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I have been around heavy equipment all my life and I have never seen a master link like this one!

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This pic was taken by the University of North Carolina's Bio fuel research farm. Can anybody tell me what they are growing here?

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Really enjoyed driving the back roads. One thing that surprised me was the diversity of crops being grown here.

Stopped and visited with LH Turner. What a great visit that was. Showed me around his shop and the projects he is currently working on. The stories he shared is one of the things that make this tractor bug so much fun.
 
From the coast to the mountains, our diverse climate and soil types enable NC to produce a wide variety of crops. The tobacco looks like flue-cured tobacco, and it apprears to have been primed once. The leaves are harvested from the bottom up amd cured and dried in heated barns.
 
Thanks Jim, I knew the tobacco was cured in the heated barns but did not know it was harvested off the bottom of the plant up.
 
How about that Kerry, two guys from MO back that way at the same time. I came back on 64 and IN/IL area looked like they went from flooding to drought. A lot of corn and beans wiped out.
 
Thy harvest shade tobacco,cigar wrapper, like that up here in the CT. Broadleaf they cut the whole plant down and hang as this type is used for filler and binder in cigars.I saw them cutting yesterday.

Thanks for the pics

Vito
 
Kerry, I've worked in tobacco most of my life. As a youngun, I made my spending money helping neighbors with their crop. We came back to the farm in 1978 and I raised it until the federal buyout a few years ago. We have lots of sweat, tired muscles, trying times, good stories, and fond memories of my days in the tobacco fields, barns, and warehouses of NC!
 
Yeah, when I was younger, back in the 50s. you worked and sweat all day to get it in from the field and "strung" on the stick, and the hardest part came last, hanging it all in the barn! Times have changed!
 
Korn......heading back to soggy MO tomorrow (sat). I am wanting to go back thru Nashville, the powers that be want to go back the way we came, thru the Virginia's. Wonder who's gonna win this one!......lol
 
Done it all! I used stick barns until I quit in 2004 and a neighbor used them until he quit in '09. We used an electric stringer though. Helped alot!
 
I'd vote for Nashville, but once we started heading home with no definitive plans to stay anywhere else, mile upon mile builds up and we were just anxious to get on home.
 
Lots of produce and canals out that way. If you're near Savannah take 17 north. There is a big bridge, some cool old houses, and once you get up a little ways, the trees grow over the highway.
 
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