There may be no job more backbreaking than housing tobacco.
A hot, hazy August day with the heat index at 108 doesn't help.
This tobacco will hang in tiers in a barn and dry naturally until late Fall.
Once dried, it will be 'stripped' and tied into 'hands' or bundled in 60-100 pound bales before taken to market.
At the market, an auctioneer will sell it to the highest bidder or it will be sold to a cooperative at the lowest price allowed by law.

This labor intensive process is often by the hands of illegals working long hours in terrible conditions and at below minimum wages. The farmers are thrilled to get the cheap labor and the law turns a blind eye to the entire hipocracy.

Scott County, KENTUCKY