Type 22 tobacco

Type 22 tobacco

Type 22 tobacco is a classification of United States tobacco product as defined by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, effective date November 7, 1986. The definition states that type 22 tobacco is that type of Fire-cured tobacco, known as Eastern District Fire-cured, producedprincipally in a section east of the Tennessee River in southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee. Most type 22 tobacco in northern Tennessee is grown in Robertson County and Montgomery County.Type 22 is harvested, stripped and hun inside curing barns and a fire is set to provide optimum conditions for curing the product for sale. Incidentially, several barns are lost to fire each year, usually representing a substantial loss for the grower.

References

https://www.ams.usda.gov/standards/tb22-23.pdf

http://www.nass.usda.gov/ky/Pamphlet/tobpam05.pdf

http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/tobacco/Data/table17.pdf

*Slide show from University of Kentucky and University of Tennessee on Dark Tobacco Production, includes type 22 tobacco. http://ces.ca.uky.edu/darktobacco/TWC04-DTsymp-Bailey.pdf


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