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Farmboy 81

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Spent all day today once the dew dried off trying to get everything that needed to be topped and sprayed before Elsa gets here. Wound up being able to top 60 acres and spray the 30 acres at the same time that needed sprayed. I have found muscles that I had forgotten about since I parked the longarm ditch mowers for the year from turning around and looking at what the topper is doing.
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Certainly hope the storm is not destructive to your crop. The worst hurricane for us in my baccer- growing years was Hurricane Fran.
 
Hurricane Fran was rough here too. Everything was plastered to the ground from the wind. No electricity here for 14 days straight with all the barns full of baccer. Hope we don't have to relive that again.
 
I think I'll get me a few ibuprofen and call it good. Might keep my wife from adding on to her to do list. Lol.
 
Farmboy,


Where are you located ? I've never seen a rig like that here in south central Kentucky ! Iay it ? Is it designed to top tobacco or spray it ?What is it called ? Thanks !

Whizkid
 
It's a Powell brand topper that I mounted a spray boom on the back to be able to spray with it also. Yes it's made for topping tobacco.
 
After tobacco is topped(breaking off the bloom/seed head), the plants energy goes to growing bigger leaves. The plant tries to grow 'suckers'(new blooms/seed heads), up and down the stalk, which used to have to be broken off(by hand), but now the plant is sprayed with 'sucker dope', a chemical that inhibits sucker growth. It's all about leaf size, quality and color, and weight.
Here in my part of Kentucky, burley tobacco is topped by hand, cut and housed in the barn by hand, and stripped by hand. Even with cultivating(plowing as it is called here), there is a lot of hoeing by hand. Very labor intensive.
Burley is kind of fading out around here, but some guys are trying cigar wrapper tobacco. It seems even more labor intense, with weekly sprayings, and how much more gentle you have to handle it to prevent holes in the leaves. Can't have ANY holes in the leaves. Mark.
 
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