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My grandfather had a tobacco base that he leased out. He acquired it back in the 1930s. He never grew tobacco that I know of, but he made some good money off of it over the years. Most of the farms that grew tobacco in Ohio were an acre or so in size.
Paul, was your farm a central processing facility or did one farm use all those barns? Ohio tobacco farmers co-operated drying barns because the individual farms were so small.

Glen, I always wanted to get back to farming as a retirement hobby. I grew up on a farm and spent most of my life writing about farming and farm machinery, but never had time to do much of it. We now have 5 acres that I love putting to good use. We so far have not gotten into livestock, but we do want to grow some meat chickens. We've thought about raising a butcher hog and a steer, but the "becoming a pet" aspect of it would be hard for us. It would be tough to spend the better part of a year feeding and caring for the welfare of an animal and then killing it.