Tobacco harvesting in southern Ontario, Canada.

This is tobacco harvesting in southern Ontario Canada. At this stage of harvest the upper leaves termed 4th pulling, undertips, and tips are harvested. Once these leaves are harvested from all tobacco fields, harvest is finished for the year. The leaves are loaded into bulk kilns to be cured and dried out. After that the leaves are stripped and baled for shipment.

[@mdbryan9525]

Great dirt footages. Congrats!

[@sarah_farm]

I just cant believe how they have access to just such a large variety of fruits , trees and plants. Feels like they live in paradise. Fresh produce right on their door step , surrounded by nature and enjoyed together in a close knit family and community! All the money in the world cant buy what they have.

[@MrRiptonk]

I picked tobacco as a student in Ontario in 1996. We used to progressively take leaves going up the plant - looks like this machine is taking it in one go. Great experience for me but I've had stiffness in right hand ever since - it was hot, tough work.

[@katerinus1]

i totally agree i worked in mount brydges back in the summer of 1995 at the farm of john and joe van den elzen and that summer of 1995 was realy hot i remember for a dutch student with long blond hair from the netherlands i learned there what hard labor on the land really meant 14-16 hours a day sometimes ..but after all still one of the best excrescences i haver have done i traveled after the season ends all the way from south ontario till vancouver in a old ford country squire and did see all the beautiful places on the road in your great country.

[@MrRiptonk]

@@katerinus1 Thanks for reply - very interesting. There were 5 Dutch guys in our group and one other English guy in our group as well as me and he flaked out after a week. I was on a farm in Delaware and it was beautiful. Always regretted not finding a way to stay there. I got a major rash and so worked in trousers and a jumper - at the end of every other row we would turn our boots upside down and sweat would pour out. I really like the Dutch company but the Newfies were very edgey! One time we got invited over to their lodge to watch the Ice Hockey World Cup and one of them opened the door and asked who the hell had invited me? I thought he was joking so I told him where to go and all hell let loose - I got smacked and the Dutch were fighting against some of the Newfies whilst I was on the floor and then it stopped and somebody said great fight and opened some beers. Completely surreal. And mice in the barn would scamper all over the floor when the lights went out. Great great memories.

[@MrRiptonk]

And when my fingers went like sausages and all stiff the farmer told me to rub them with WD40! Unbelievable.

[@darkdefender1111]

Oh my back still hurts from priming tobacco all those many years ago. Not much human labour anymore like the days of my grandfather priming by hand walking behind a horse in the 1950's to my time priming on a 5 seat priming machine in the early 1980's. $ was good anyways. In my years priming we were paid $85 a Kiln.

[@graemegroot1456]

Did u buy the harvester used. Just wondering if maybe u bought it off my grandpa. He had one just like it. We're located near Aylmer Ontario

[@caseman7896]

I dont own this farm and I dont own any of its equipment. I was just driving by in the area(Delhi area) and filmed this tobacco harvest operation. In my road travels I stop every once in a while and film farm operations of all kinds.

[@canadiancatholic2373]

What kind of tobacco is this? Virginian, burley or something else?

[@brianzybura8633]

Probably, Caseman 78 is not likely aware of what type of tobacco it is. At any rate, he likely is a very intelligent individual. To answer your question, this type of tobacco is your regular cigarette tobacco. About 40 years ago, tobacco farmers in southern Ontario grew a variety called Virginia 115, and a few years later grew a variety called Delgold. I dont know the name of the variety that they grow today, but it is tobacco for cigarettes.

[@DraGon-cg6ge]

how much land do you have?

[@brf5221]

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