Links: agriculture
Drake's Cigarettes and Pesticides Bibliography
A massive compilation.This bibliography represents a late 1996 deep search of world scientific and medical journal literature, both online and in libraries . . . oddly, there seems to be almost no funded research into the role of pesticides in tobacco industry-related disease and death. Researchers could do no better than to start at this page.
http://www.ktc.com/~bdrake/cigpest.html#Cigarettex
The European Experience with Native American Tobacco
Bill Drake's spectacular cross-cultural investigation, filled with hard-to-find and trenchant source material, plus Drake's own analysis. A must. From the preface: It is a curious fact that while the Whites took the material tobacco from the Indians they took with it no fragment of the world that accompanied it, nor were they at first aware that there was such a world. After all of the generations that have elapsed since its introduction among the Whites, it has woven itself scarcely at all into their psychology and mythology. Nicotine is enshrined among the Whites only as a drug, as a taste, as a habit, along with the seeking after mild and tasty forms, while the Native peoples make tobacco a heritage from the gods, a strange path which juts from there into this world and leads to the very ends of magic. -- Clyde Kluckholn, 1908
http://rampages.onramp.net/~bdrake/europe.html#Europeanx
Smoke and Illusion
A fresh if idiosyncratic look at the tobacco situation-- from considering pesticides and manufacturing processes as the basis of cigarettes' health effects, to using tobacco to produce ethanol. Another example of tobacco contemplation as an emergent (and surprisingly personal) art form. This site is dedicated to the idea that it may not be tobacco which is the cause of much, or most smoking-related disease and death. The role of chronic sublethal exposure to cigarette pesticides, the use of contaminated paper industry waste materials, the presence of hazardous solvent residues, the use of foreign tobacco wastes, and many other new avenues of evidence are explored. We suggest new product liability strategies for cigarette victims and their families, new routes to more effective community-level regulation, and new reasons for young people to understand the importance of not smoking cigarettes and using other so-called tobacco products. We also propose some interesting, maybe startling new uses for tobacco - including one that was awarded the 1993 Energy-Related Social Invention of the Year in the UK
http://rampages.onramp.net/~bdrake
PESTIS Database
from the Pesitcide Action Network. Search on "Tobacco" and see what pesticides are being used on tobacco crops worldwide. (Thanks for the tip to Larry Breed)
http://www.igc.apc.org/panna/pestis.html
North Carolina Agricultural History and Overview
from the NC Dept. of Agriculture.
http://www.agr.state.nc.us/stats/general/general.htm
Perique Tobacco Website
Perique tobacco can only be grown in the rich fertile soil of St.James Parish. Located about half way between New Orleans and Baton Rouge on the banks of the Mississippi River, St.James is the only place in the world where Perique tobacco can be grown. . . . it is processed in a way that has been practiced in this area since before Columbus discovered the new world. When the Acadians first settled in the area, they found the native american indians smoking this strange, ferment. . . . In the comming weeks we will be putting together a comprehensive history of Perique tobacco and will be updating this are of the web including as many pictures as we can find.
http://www.noline.com/perique/
Indian Tobacco
(Lobelia)
http://www.nativeweb.org/NativeTech/plantgath/indianto.htm
Tobacco Seed Varieties for sale
Southern Business Express Seed Division sells tobaccos. While everyone is familiar with the smoking and chewing products derived from this plant, few people realize its many other uses. It has medicinal values, makes an extremely valuable ornamental plant and flower garden specimen and is used to make one of nature's finest biodegradeable, all natural pesticides.
For instruction, you can order the "Home Tobacco Kit."
http://www.seedman.com/Tobacco.html
Tobacco Seed And Book Homepage
Sacred and traditional Native American tobacco seed varieties. Grow your own, organically, without chemicals or sprays, and tax-free! Redwood City Seed Co.
http://www.batnet.com/rwc-seed/tobacco.html
Joe Winter's Traditional Native American Tobacco Seed Bank and Education Program (TNAT)
at the University of New Mexico (UNM), has 2 goals: 1) collecting, preserving, growing and distributing the seeds of the many traditional Native American types of tobacco and 2) educating Native Americans about the dangers of tobacco misuse.
http://www.treaty7.org/friends/tnat/tnat.htm
1997 Burley Tobacco Production Guide
Like the Flue-cured, includes the Situation and Outlook, Burley Variety Information, Cover Crops, Insect Management, Topping and Sucker Management, Worker Protection Standards for Agricultural Pesticides Used in Tobacco Production and more.
http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/Production_Guides/Burley/contents.html
1997 Flue-Cured Tobacco Production Guide
from North Carolina State University
http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/Production_Guides/Flue-cured/contents.htm...
Burley USA
This Website is Currently Under Construction For more information, please contact us at: 1-888-BURLEY4 or E-mail us at info@burleyusa.com
http://www.burleyusa.com/
Government Reports
http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/TobaccoEcon/gov.html
Tobacco Economics Online
Univ. of Kentucky
http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/TobaccoEcon/
Kentucky Tobacco Settlement Trust Corporation
http://kytobaccotrust.state.ky.us/
Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association
In 1941, the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative began with the aim to help tobacco farmers receive fair prices, develop a stronger voice, and maintain a better way of life for all burley producers. We still work hard to accomplish these goals today. Our members are "any persons, firms or corporations that own land to which a Burley Tobacco Quota is assigned and any tenant or lessee of such land." We are a cooperative - we are owned and managed by the growers who make up its membership. Before 1941, farmers were basically left to fend for themselves against the tobacco companies for fair prices. Growers received pennies a pound for their hard labor crop. Times were tough and prices were unfair. However, concerned citizens saw the plight of the burley tobacco farmer and led the way to a new organization that would change the U.S. tobacco industry. The Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association of Lexington, Kentucky was the first to fight for fair prices for burley producers of Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, and West Virginia. Today, we still serve the burley producer by maintaining the price support program and representing producer concerns.
http://www.burleytobacco.com/
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture blue mold web page
http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/kpn/kyblue/kyblue.htm
North America Blue Mold Forecast Home Page
Farmers' alert page, from North Carolina State University
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/bluemold/
Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corp.
For growers in the Southeast.
http://www.ustobaccofarmer.com/
The International Tobacco Growers' Association
In England, of all places. But if you're interested in the agricultural aspects of tobacco, this site is YOU. A terrific overview of the problems of tobacco as a crop worldwide . There's even an issues section, where WHO's and PANOS's reports are rebutted (from an agricultural/economic--not health--standpoint, of course).
http://www.tobaccoleaf.org/
TOBACCO IN TRANSITION
Multimedia presentation from the Greensboro News & Record
Farmers who grow tobacco, like the Alberts of Rockingham County, realize that no other crop will yield the income that the golden leaf has. Cigarette factory workers like Jimmy and Rheda Adams of Pleasant Garden would see their paychecks halved if they held similar jobs in other local industries. . . This web site walks you through the issues that face tobacco industry workers today. Through text, images, and sound, our multimedia presentation gives you a close-up view of their world and their worries.
http://www.greensboro.com/nronline/projects/tobacco/
The mission of the Tobacco Programs is to facilitate the orderly marketing of unmanufactured tobacco. The division provides unbiased, timely grading services in a quality manner and at a fair cost. It also develops, maintains, and provides the only official U.S. standards for domestic and imported tobacco, along with the collection and dissemination of accurate market information. The division also provides official testing services for prohibited pesticides on imported tobacco.
http://www.ams.usda.gov/tob/index.htm
Tobacco Farm Life Museum
Kenley, NC's lovely homage to the old days of tobacco farming is online.
http://www.tobmuseum.bbnp.com/
announces its first program opportunity for eligible North Carolina organizations to propose activities that will improve social and economic conditions in economically affected or tobacco-dependent regions of the state. The Foundation was established by the State of North Carolina in 1999 for the purposes of receipt and distribution of a portion of the funds North Carolina receives as a result of the settlement of North Carolina v. Philip Morris Incorporated, et al.
http://www.goldenleaf.org/
19th Ohio Tobacco Festival
August 24-27, 2000
Formed in 1982, the Ohio Tobacco Festival committee acknowledges tobacco as an important part of Ohio's heritage. Grown on 10,000 farm quotas in southern Ohio, this celebration of the golden crop recognizes tobacco growers, their families, and the communities in which it is grown. Our heritage will always be remembered at the Ohio Tobacco Festival Museum in Ripley, Ohio!
http://www.ripley.k12.oh.us/Ripley/OTF2000/