interesting tobacco farm video

[Patriotguy]

Tabakanbau in der Uckermark // Tobacco-Growing in the Uckermark - 1993/94

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbEp8_VyiD4

 

[deluxestogie]

This is narrated entirely in German. So far as I can determine, there is no English subtitling or translation available.

The first half of the video should be familiar to anyone who has seen videos of commercial tobacco farming in the US. Interesting nonetheless.
At ~14 minutes, aggressive topping.
Stringing and air-curing.
At ~19 minutes, flue-curing.
At ~21 minutes, sun-curing.
At ~27 minutes, tobacco auction.
The last ~5 minutes seems to be an economics committee meeting, discussing pricing, quality, international imports of tobacco. (Yawn.)

My German is too poor to add any more insight.

Bob

 

[docpierce]

Tabakanbau in der Uckermark // Tobacco-Growing in the Uckermark - 1993/94

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbEp8_VyiD4

I'm wondering if the farmers there in Uckermar still produce their tobacco.

 

[docpierce]

Anyone want to speculate what type/variety were they growing?

 

[texbiker]

turn on cc and set to english for translation

 

[deluxestogie]

Wow! That option is not only wonderful, it is nearly so perfectly tucked away that I had difficulty locating it--even knowing that it should be there somewhere. I didn't realize that Youtube had implemented an auto-translate feature.

Thank you.

Bob

 

[texbiker]

Grandkids taught me