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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
The government made sure it was profitable. A certain amount of tobacco from each farmer got price support from the government. That was the allotment or base amount you would grow, pretty much a guaranteed profit. Any amount you grew beyond that was sold on the open market for whatever you could get.
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I didn't know that. Here, the big Tobacco Auction was in Hughesville, Maryland. When I moved here in 1988 it was still a big, big deal.
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Originally Posted by ckelly78z
With just my wife, and I working to haul, and stack, we get 100 bales at a time on my 18' car hauler trailer, spend a couple hours stacking, and then jump in the pool with a stiff drink.
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I know the drill! We still have a horse and a pony and board two others...I remain Mongo the Stable Boy, 100 bales at a time.
When I was a kid, we got all our hay in the Central Valley of California: Three metal wire alfalfa. My Dad was too cheap to actually have the hay delivered so he made arrangements for us to pick the bales out of the field.
We had two trucks and two horse trailers, enclosed, and off we'd go, three trips in a day...the Joad family circus.