tobacco and pesticides

bigharpoon

zoom6zoom

Garen B

No worries, the pesticides will put hair on your chest. And I second what zoomy said, my Dad has a veggie garden and actually takes my old cigar nubs and soaks them in water and uses that concoction as a pesticide.

j0z3r

Unrelated to the topic, but interesting enough...I was talking to a guy at the B&M I go to who had gone on a tour of the Camacho facility and fields and he was telling me that they would weed the fields with goats (I think it was goats), because they would eat the weeds but wouldn't touch the tobacco.

Hays

j0z3r:

Unrelated to the topic, but interesting enough...I was talking to a guy at the B&M I go to who had gone on a tour of the Camacho facility and fields and he was telling me that they would weed the fields with goats (I think it was goats), because they would eat the weeds but wouldn't touch the tobacco.

Yup. That's actually a very popular "green" method of weed control. Just a day ago I was driving down the road and I saw a sign that said "Goats 4 Rent - $50/hr"... I can only imagine that it's for weed control, but it still gave me a good chuckle..

jeff_connors

Garen B:

No worries, the pesticides will put hair on your chest. And I second what zoomy said, my Dad has a veggie garden and actually takes my old cigar nubs and soaks them in water and uses that concoction as a pesticide.

Yeh I grew some this year, slugs,caterpillars, aphids and locust love tobacco!!. I mean a one caterpillar will climb up a leaf, sit there, eat and poo, become a buttery fly, and leave behind poo and about a dozen inch size holes in a plant,nice guys eh! To get rid of those critter you either need some nasty commercial stuff or the home brew I wiped up; consisting of molasses,garlic,cyan pepper,pepper and ivory dish soap...yummmy! The commercial stuff most likely works better, and I'm sure I smoke(d) my fair share of it.

j0z3r

Hays:

j0z3r:

Unrelated to the topic, but interesting enough...I was talking to a guy at the B&M I go to who had gone on a tour of the Camacho facility and fields and he was telling me that they would weed the fields with goats (I think it was goats), because they would eat the weeds but wouldn't touch the tobacco.

Yup. That's actually a very popular "green" method of weed control. Just a day ago I was driving down the road and I saw a sign that said "Goats 4 Rent - $50/hr"... I can only imagine that it's for weed control, but it still gave me a good chuckle..

Yeah, I've heard of goats being used for that purpose, what I thought was really cool was that the goats wouldn't eat the tobacco. And it goats are going for that much per hour, I think I'm going to change vocations and go eat weeds.

YankeeMan

Hays:

j0z3r:

Unrelated to the topic, but interesting enough...I was talking to a guy at the B&M I go to who had gone on a tour of the Camacho facility and fields and he was telling me that they would weed the fields with goats (I think it was goats), because they would eat the weeds but wouldn't touch the tobacco.

Yup. That's actually a very popular "green" method of weed control. Just a day ago I was driving down the road and I saw a sign that said "Goats 4 Rent - $50/hr"... I can only imagine that it's for weed control, but it still gave me a good chuckle..

I don't know, there's a couple of places in West Virginia...

Krieg

The weeds/pesticides probably aren't the biggest problem they face, I would have to say Blue Mold is one of the (if not) the biggest problem they have. Which is the reason Ecuador's tobacco market has grown like crazy, because their soil is actually immune to it.

jsnake

Hays:

j0z3r:

Unrelated to the topic, but interesting enough...I was talking to a guy at the B&M I go to who had gone on a tour of the Camacho facility and fields and he was telling me that they would weed the fields with goats (I think it was goats), because they would eat the weeds but wouldn't touch the tobacco.

Yup. That's actually a very popular "green" method of weed control. Just a day ago I was driving down the road and I saw a sign that said "Goats 4 Rent - $50/hr"... I can only imagine that it's for weed control, but it still gave me a good chuckle..

The purpose for the goats really does depend on what part of the country you are from. I didn't know that about goats though. Very interesting that they would eat the weeds and not the tobacco plants.

bacon.jay

blacklight

i doesnt matter if there are pesticides and are poured into these leaves in the processing they are cleaned and the manufacturers has a certain procedure in cleaning it up before manufacturing it into our beloved cigar.

bforrester

jsnake:

Hays:

j0z3r:

Unrelated to the topic, but interesting enough...I was talking to a guy at the B&M I go to who had gone on a tour of the Camacho facility and fields and he was telling me that they would weed the fields with goats (I think it was goats), because they would eat the weeds but wouldn't touch the tobacco.

Yup. That's actually a very popular "green" method of weed control. Just a day ago I was driving down the road and I saw a sign that said "Goats 4 Rent - $50/hr"... I can only imagine that it's for weed control, but it still gave me a good chuckle..

The purpose for the goats really does depend on what part of the country you are from. I didn't know that about goats though. Very interesting that they would eat the weeds and not the tobacco plants.

Goats are regularly used here for brush clearance. Somebody is making some money on it too. I drop my goats on your land and you pay me to feed my goats. How is that a fair deal?

ironhorse

blacklight:

i doesnt matter if there are pesticides and are poured into these leaves in the processing they are cleaned and the manufacturers has a certain procedure in cleaning it up before manufacturing it into our beloved cigar.

yeah, obviously the blender doesn't want any hint of chemicals in the taste of the leaves. Plus, if they were really dangrous pesticides still on them, there wouldn't be so many beetle issues.

nightmaremike31

j0z3r

nightmaremike31:

It's bad PR to kill off your customers...

I don't know, the cigarette companies are doing pretty well off of it.

nightmaremike31

BStayer

kaspera79

T. Gervais

j0z3r

bigharpoon

Garen B

kaspera79